LIVE: Pakistan election results 2024

[ad_1] Pakistan’s general elections are underway, with more than 128 million people exercising their democratic right to elect their representatives of national and provincial assemblies — on 855 constituencies — in the world’s fifth-biggest democracy. The 2024 elections surpassed the previous ones in 2018 in various aspects, including a record budget allocation of Rs48 billion,…

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PPP: From resistance to pragmatism

[ad_1] Perhaps it is fitting that the Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) supporters are called ‘jiyalas’. Seen as a ‘party of martyrs’, the PPP has traditionally stood as the political line of defence against an interventionist state apparatus that has used democratic parties as pawns in an undemocratic game of power. But, while the revolutionary tag…

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