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Friends and foes come across at Presidency

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Pakistan

PML-N looking for honest bureaucrats

Turnout claims are misleading

Protest over the murder of Zahra Shahid

Blogs

Six million votes missing in action

The analysis presented here is, at best, a sincere attempt to understand the vote counts reported by the ECP.

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• » Fix the fixers

Features

PTI’s ‘pro-poor’ agenda too big to implement

“The PTI would find Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s existing income insufficient to finance an investment intensive programme promised under its election manifesto.”

• » Makhdooms emerge triumphant yet again after polls
• » Inexperienced PTI faces massive challenge in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• » Umerkot’s religious minorities ‘hostage to fear’ as polls near
• » In Pakistani town, men have spoken: no women vote

Highlights

Hazaras, hope and the challenge for running candidates

Threats continue to haunt Quetta’s Hazara Shia community and the chances of their subsiding in the near future remain slim.

• » Separate voter list: Ahmadis disassociate themselves from polls
• » Why PML-N ditched the Likeminded
• » PML-N embraces Legharis in disregard to Khosas
• » Ex-PM’s parting gift to timber mafia