Daily Times Congratulates Qadir Khan Mandokhail
May 10, 2021
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has hit hard on Imran Khan’s PTI government for showing insensitivity towards rising inflation and ensuing poverty in the country.
In a statement issued here on Sunday, Bilawal Bhutto said that the rate of poverty was dangerously on the rise. He said with a 30% rise in poverty rate, 80.5 million people are standing on the edge of the poverty line. He said daily 15 to 20 people are ending their lives by committing suicide due to poverty.
Bilawal asked the Prime Minister Khan to come out of his dream world and assess the ground realities. He said for a common man life has become very hard. He said the government has again raised the power tariff to extract Rs 90 billion from the pockets of poor people.
PML-N secures victory in PP-84 Khushab by-election
PML-N secures victory in PP-84 Khushab by-election
PML-N candidate Barrister Moazzam Sher Kallu won the PP-84 Khushab by-election by a wide margin after securing 73,081 votes, according to provisional results released by the Election Commission of Pakistan on Thursday.
Unofficial results showed PTI’s Ali Hussain coming in second place with 62,903 votes. Independent candidate Amjad Raza came in third with 8,340 votes, followed by the candidate from the recently banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), Hafiz Muhammad Asghar Ali, who secured 5,782 votes.
PPP’s Ghulam Habib Ahmed came in seventh with 235 votes.
The seat which covers tehsil Noorpur Thal and some villages of tehsil Quaidabad, had fallen vacant due to the death of PML-N’s Waris Kallu who won it four times consecutively. The party gave the ticket to his son, Moazzam.
ISLAMABAD: Miftah Ismail addressing a press conference along with other PML-N leaders after a hearing by the Election Commission on his application on Tuesday. Online
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday ordered recounting of votes polled in the recently held by-poll in NA-249 (Karachi), igniting an indirect spate of words between the two main opposition parties Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) one hailing and the other assailing the ECP for its decision.
The exercise of recount of votes to be carried out on May 6 was ordered by a four-member bench of the ECP headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja on a petition filed by PML-N candidate Dr Miftah Ismail.
Karachi
May 2, 2021
Unlike the recent by-elections in Punjab that were dominated by political narratives, most of the voters of the NA-249 by-poll in Karachi held this past Thursday decided to focus on the resolution of civic issues, particularly the provision of water.
Keeping in view the severity of civic issues and particularly the scarcity of water in various neighbourhoods of the National Assembly constituency, the by-poll nominees of all the political parties made the water issue, which every resident has been facing for the past several decades, a prominent part of their electioneering.
But being Sindh’s ruling party that also oversees the municipality and district administration, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) took full advantage of the opportunity and succeeded in improving its ranking from the sixth position in the 2018 general election to winning the April 29 by-poll.