Pakistan is seeing an unprecedented number of extremists and militant groups running in national elections on July 25.
The UN Security Council has unanimously condemned the use of violence by the Taliban and the Islamic State (IS) group to disrupt Afghanistan's elections.
e July 25 vote is set to lead Pakistan to greater instability with intense political wrangling, a worsening economy, and greater insecurity.
A new, far right Islamist party has emerged on Pakistan’s election scene and is running hundreds of candidates on both national and provincial seats. Analysts are watching the party closely and fear its impact on Pakistani politics.
Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has appealed his 10-year prison sentence, just days after returning to the country ahead of national elections on July 25.
Authorities in Pakistan swiftly arrested former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter and political heir, Maryam, shortly after the two landed in the eastern city of Lahore on a commercial flight from Britain on July 13.
As campaigning for Pakistan’s July 25 election swings into high gear, a familiar game is being repeated in the country’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan.
The party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has alleged that the authorities are detaining hundreds of supporters ahead of the ousted leader's return to Pakistan this week.
Entrenched local powerbrokers, who include feudal lords, tribal chiefs, clan elders and spiritual leaders and are known in Pakistan as "electables," hold about a quarter of Punjab's 141 elected parliamentary seats.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will return to his country on July 13 to face jail, his daughter has said.
Hafiz Saeed, a U.S.-designated global terrorist and head of Milli Muslim League (MML), a banned militant group turned political party, is campaigning in Pakistan.
A Pakistani anticorruption court has sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison over the purchase of upscale London flats, prosecution lawyer Sardar Muzaffar Abbas said.
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