Day: July 5, 2024
Muslim candidates and key role of Muslim vote in 100 constituencies
The British Muslim voters could play a crucial role in around 100 constituencies including a majority of swing seats around the country and a record number of around 300 Muslim prospective parliamentary candidates — most of them Pakistani origin — are standing in elections on 4 July across the country. Muslims in the UK number at around four million and their participation in general elections is considered as of crucial importance in many swing seats and also in the traditional Labour safe seats where dynamics have changed this time. According…
PTI leaders protest over ‘not being allowed’ to meet jailed Imran Khan
he Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders Thursday said that they were not allowed to meet the party’s incarcerated founder Imran Khan in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail after they waited outside the facility for a few hours to see him. Several PTI leaders, including Leader of the Opposition in Senate Shibli Faraz and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Omar Ayub, protested outside the jail after the prison’s meeting time was over. “We are all united and there are no rifts among the party’s ranks and files. We are all on…