A European Union (EU) monitoring team, that was present for Pakistan’s general election which saw the victory of cricket legend-turned-politician Imran Khan this week, said on Friday that the campaign for the election was not a level playing field for all the political parties that participated in the race.
The former cricketer turned politician Imran Khan declared victory in Pakistan’s elections on Thursday, hailing what he describes as the “fairest” vote in the country’s history despite opposition claims of vote-rigging and corruption.
Pakistan experienced multiple violent incidents, including a suicide bombing that killed at least 31, on Wednesday as the nation took to the polls for regional legislative elections.
Pakistan prepares to open polls for this year’s regional and legislative elections Wednesday, ending a campaign season fraught with incendiary language, terrorist attacks, and flooded with hundreds of candidates openly embracing Islamist groups.
Chinese development projects and citizens are at risk of becoming “targets of terrorist attacks” in Pakistan, China’s state-owned Global Times recently cautioned in an editorial, citing deteriorating security conditions ahead of the Muslim country’s general election.
Voters in Pakistan may not have their ballots by election day, July 25, because over 100 candidates have pending legal cases that keep them off the ballot, preventing election officials from printing the ballots in time.
The looming July 25 general elections in Pakistan have seen hundreds of candidates enter the political mainstream with backing from Islamic terrorist organizations and ardent supporters of the country’s blasphemy law, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) revealed this week.
Pakistan removed the leader of one of the nation’s most prominent jihadi groups from its terrorist watchlist this week while Islamabad considers if his group may join other Islamist radical organizations in fielding candidates in its upcoming election, Reuters learned Thursday.
The looming general elections in Pakistan will see candidates backed by the nation’s powerful military establishment run against more than 200 contenders affiliated with the Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) wing of U.S.-designated terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
