Pakistan goes to the polls
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In the small village of Khanpayari, in central Punjab, voting is brisk despite the boycott by the Islamist party
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's opponents headed for a big election victory on Tuesday after voters rejected his former ruling party, raising questions about the future of the U.S. ally who has ruled since 1999.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - Pakistani voters are expected to succeed where President Pervez Musharraf has failed, pushing back the Islamist tide and throwing out of power political clerics governing Pakistan's violent northwest.
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Comment is free: Kamila Shamsie in Karachi: Pakistan's electoral process has been stifled by suicide bombings and the shadow of Musharraf
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WASHINGTON: Polling for the US elections will begin according to Pakistan time at 5:00 pm on Tuesday as Americans vote in one of the closest presidential elections in decades after a long and often bitter campaign between Republican incumbent George W
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Voters in Northern Ireland go to the polls today in what has been described as a moment-of-truth election for the future of self-rule in the troubled province.Comment
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's ruling party assured President Pervez Musharraf yesterday that he had the votes to be elected to a new five-year term in October, before opposition leader Benazir Bhutto returns from exile. The president is chosen by national and provincial lawmakers. Bhutto, the former prime minister who plans to return Oct. 18, had urged that the presidential vote be ...
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SIALKOT, Pakistan, Feb. 17 -- Many people in this gritty rural district of wheat fields and cinder-block factories believe one of the country's two main opposition parties deserves to win Monday's crucial voting for parliament. Yet they also believe the government will do everything it can to steal...
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Key figures in Pakistan's parliamentary elections who could emerge as candidates for prime minister.
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The stakes are high but enthusiasm appears low as Pakistanis face one of the most crucial elections in their history.
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Pakistani officials were to meet to decide the fate of scheduled January 8 elections, after Benazir Bhutto's party announced it would contest the vote despite her assassination.
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Two-thirds of Pakistanis want President Pervez Musharraf to resign and his allies will fare badly in parliamentary elections next month, according to the first major poll published since he declared emergency rule.
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Pakistan's election commission is to meet to decide when polls originally scheduled for 8 January will take place.
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Voters in the Gaza Strip go to the polls on Thursday in local elections in which Hamas militants are taking part.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- With their country in turmoil, Pakistani voters are expected within months to go to the polls for the first parliamentary elections here in five years. But as time runs short, independent observers say that the nation is poorly prepared and that the elections will be highly...
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Sympathy vote for Pakistan People's party expected to give it the edge in election beset by worries of attacks
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Pakistan's political crisis appeared to stabilize on Thursday with parties looking ahead to an election in which the party of assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is set to make gains.