Essay: Pakistan election results in political instability when the country needed it least
PARVEEN AKHTAR looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at what next for Pakistan following a hotly contested election…
Pakistan ex-PMs and bitter rivals Sharif and Khan both claim poll win
Islamabad, Pakistan Reuters Former Pakistani prime ministers and bitter rivals Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan on Friday both declared victory in elections marred by delayed results and militant attacks, throwing the country into further political turmoil. Sharif’s party won the most seats by a single party in Thursday’s election, but supporters of imprisoned Khan, who […]
Pakistan PM appeals for calm after Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy
World Watch Monitor Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has urged the nation not to let a fraction of people incite them to take the law into their own hands over the decision of the Supreme Court to release a Christian woman who had been facing the death penalty for blasphemy. The security situation in Pakistan […]
PAKISTAN ELECTIONS: CHRISTIANS EXPRESS DISMAY AT LACK OF REPRESENTATION
With elections scheduled for later this month, ASIF AQEEL, of World Watch Monitor, looks the representation of Christians and other minority groups in Parliament in Pakistan…