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Pakistan election results indicate tight race as nation anxiously awaits winner

Pakistan election results indicate tight race as nation anxiously awaits winner

Pakistan election early results show PTI-affiliated candidates taking a narrow lead, followed by PMLN and PPP contenders, Al Jazeera reported. Independent candidates, the vast majority of whom are affiliated with the PTI, maintain their lead, winning 60 constituencies. Mobile services…
UNHCR: Pakistan extends refugee cards for Afghan migrants until end of March

UNHCR: Pakistan extends refugee cards for Afghan migrants until end of March

The Pakistani government has extended the refugee cards for registered Afghan immigrants until the 31st of March 2024, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced in a statement. The interim government of Pakistan, based on the proposal of the…
Polls open in Pakistan amid suspended phone services day after Islamic State claims bombings

Polls open in Pakistan amid suspended phone services day after Islamic State claims bombings

Phone services were suspended in Pakistan for security reasons on Thursday as polls opened in its general election, a day after two bomb blasts at the election offices of a political party and an independent candidate in south-west Pakistan killed…
Twin bombings kill at least 26 as Pakistan gears up for election

Twin bombings kill at least 26 as Pakistan gears up for election

Two bomb blasts occurred today, Wednesday, outside poll candidate offices in southwestern Pakistan, resulting in at least 26 deaths and numerous injuries, officials and local media outlets said. The first blast near an independent candidate’s office in Pishin district caused…
Seven in ten Pakistanis lack confidence in elections, Gallup Poll Finds

Seven in ten Pakistanis lack confidence in elections, Gallup Poll Finds

A recent survey suggests that over two-thirds of Pakistani citizens do not trust the fairness of their electoral process and government as they approach the parliamentary elections on Thursday. The U.S.-based Gallup polling company discovered that Pakistanis are increasingly disheartened…
10 cops killed, 6 injured in attack on police station in Pakistan

10 cops killed, 6 injured in attack on police station in Pakistan

At least 10 policemen were killed and six others injured in a terrorist attack at a police station in the Dera Ismail Khan district of Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province early Monday morning, said police. A group of unknown terrorists…
Pakistan: Security forces launch “clearance operations”, killing 24 militants in southwestern Balochistan

Pakistan: Security forces launch “clearance operations”, killing 24 militants in southwestern Balochistan

The Pakistani army killed 24 militants during an anti-terror operation in the southwestern Balochistan province, an official statement said on Friday. Four soldiers and two civilians were also killed in the last three days of the military operation against terrorists,…
Pakistan: Multiple attacks across Balochistan leaves 1 dead, 5 injured

Pakistan: Multiple attacks across Balochistan leaves 1 dead, 5 injured

A person was killed while five others, including a cop, sustained injuries in multiple attacks across Balochistan on Thursday, Dawn reported. The incidents came hours before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was scheduled to hold a high-level meeting to…
Blast at PTI rally kills 4, injures 6 in Balochistan’s Sibi

Blast at PTI rally kills 4, injures 6 in Balochistan’s Sibi

Four people were killed while six were wounded in a bomb blast at a PTI rally in Balochistan’s Sibi on Tuesday, police and health officials said, just nine days before the February 8 general elections. According to the PTI statement,…
Pakistani security forces prevent 3 coordinated attacks in Balochistan amid rise in anti-terrorism struggles

Pakistani security forces prevent 3 coordinated attacks in Balochistan amid rise in anti-terrorism struggles

Pakistan’s security forces “successfully thwarted three coordinated attacks” carried out by terrorists in Balochistan’s Mach area on Monday night, Dawn Newspaper reported. In a post on social media platform X, provincial interim information minister Jan Achakzai said the militants were…
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