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Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman expressed his party’s readiness to contest in the general elections anytime, saying that the authorities can hold the polls tomorrow. “Conduct the elections tomorrow… we are ready for the polls even for tomorrow,” Fazl said during an interview with Geo News programme “Capital Talk” on Tuesday. The statement comes days after Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari took a subtle jibe at his party’s former “allies”, saying they “are running away” from the elections. Fazl said that JUI-F kept calling for new elections during…

A special court on Wednesday extended Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s judicial remand in cipher case till September 26. Khan has been imprisoned in the jail since his conviction in the Toshakhana case on August 5 for failing to properly declare gifts he received while in office. While the Islamabad High Court had overturned a lower court’s decision to jail him for three years with a Rs100,000 fine — a judgment that kept him from contesting upcoming elections, he remains behind bars due…

Former foreign minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that “it’s writing on the wall” that his party will form the next government. Addressing a ceremony at Sukkur’s Jinnah stadium on Monday, he said that “polls are inevitable” and that even if elections are not held within 90 days, they’ll eventually be held within 120 days. Accentuating the PPP government’s steps to improve healthcare facilities the former foreign minister said that Sindh’s National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) offers free of cost medical facilities to the…