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Polling staff in Lahore collect election materials as preparations for the upcoming vote move into high gear. Photo: ONLINE LAHORE: The PML-N is heading into Sunday’s by-elections with confidence, expecting no surprises as it remains largely a one-horse race across Punjab. The polling on 13 constituencies six National Assembly seats and seven Punjab Assembly seats…

Seven final-year medical students were swept away by strong waves in the Arabian Sea while swimming off Manora Beach near PNS Himalaya on Wednesday. Three of them were confirmed dead, three were rescued, and one remains missing anda search operation is underway. According to police and hospital officials, three students drowned on the spot, while…

President Asif Ali Zardari has contacted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif by telephone to discuss the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) decision to form a government in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), taking the premier into confidence over the move, sources said on Sunday. According to party sources, Prime Minister Shehbaz has tasked the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz…

Image collage of Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Munib Akhtar. — SC website ISLAMABAD: Two members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) – Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Munib Akhtar – have raised strong objections to the approval of the amended Judges’ Code of Conduct, warning that the changes undermine judicial independence,…

Rana Sanaullah. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah on Friday ruled out any negotiations with the proscribed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), saying the group had been “created in a bid to cut into the PML-N’s vote bank”. Earlier, the Ministry of Interior has issued a notification declaring the TLP…