LAHORE – Wasiq Qayyum Abbasi, the joint candidate of PTI and PML-Q, was elected Speaker of the Punjab Assembly unopposed after the opposition parties boycotted the election. The development comes a day after Dost Muhammad Mazari was voted out from his office as deputy speaker at the Punjab ...

PPP leader and former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf's nomination papers link for the NA speaker's slot have been submitted as he seeks to assume the office. Since no other NA member has submitted their nomination papers and the deadline has ended, NA Secretariat sources said the PPP leader ...

RAJANPUR – Awais Dareshak of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has been elected unopposed from the Punjab Assembly constituency PP-296 Rajanpur. A returning officer of the Pakistan Election Commission (PEC) has announced the first result before the by-election polling as no other candidate ...

QUETTA – Mir Shabbir Ali Bajrani of the Pakistan People’s Party was elected unopposed from PS-6 Kashmor in the general on Friday. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued a notification in this regard. He was elected unopposed after all the candidates against him ...

KASHMORE – Pakistan People’s Party leader Mir Shabbir Ali Bijarani is supposed to be elected as the first unopposed candidate in general elections 2018. According to reports, Shabbir Ali submitted his nominations from PS-6 Kashmore-III on PPP’s ticket as no one submitted nominee paper ...

*ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif was unanimously elected PML-N’s new President on Tuesday. * According to details, no other candidate from the party filed nomination papers hence Shehbaz was elected unopposed. Shehbaz Sharif’s nomination papers were submitted to the ...

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday named Rahul Gandhi its new president. "I hereby declare Shri Rahul Gandhi elected as the president of the Indian National Congress," senior party leader Mullappally Ramachandran said at a press conference in New Delhi. While making the announcement, Ramachandran, ...

ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been elected unopposed as President Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz for a term of four years. The party's general council meeting was held here at Convention Center on Tuesday where no other contestant filed nomination papers against Nawaz Sharif ...

KATHMANDU: Nepal's parliament on Tuesday elected unopposed three-time former prime minister Sher Bahadaur Deuba to the top post once again. This is the tenth time in just over a decade the leadership has changed hands in the Himalayan nation.Deuba, a wily political veteran, stood unopposed in the ...

SIALKOT: (APP) In Narowal, Ahmed Iqbal has been elected chairman of Zila Council unopposed, as his rival candidates Arshad Manj of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and others withdrew their nomination papers against him.Ahmed Iqbal is the son of Chaudhry Ahsan Iqbal, federal minister for Planning and ...