Pakistan’s vote count following a national election on Thursday was hit by unusual delays, leading the country’s election panel to issue a late night warning to polling officers, 10 hours after polls closed, to release results immediately. CBC | World News
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Pair of bombings at election offices kill 26 in Pakistan the day before elections
A pair of bombings at the election offices of a political party and an independent candidate in southwest Pakistan killed at least 26 people and wounded more than two dozen others, officials said Wednesday, the day before parliamentary elections are to be held. CBC | World News
Read More »With Imran Khan in jail, Pakistan gears up for election most voters don’t trust
One political analyst says that sidelining former prime minister Imran Khan, Pakistan’s most popular politician, in this week’s election ‘has trumped concern for the country’s image and democracy.’ CBC | World News
Read More »Former Pakistan PM handed 2nd jail term in 2 days as election looms
Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced on Wednesday to 14 years in prison for corruption, his lawyer and prison officials said, a day after another special court convicted Khan of leaking state secrets and gave him a 10-year prison sentence. CBC | World News
Read More »Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan gets 10-year jail term for leaking state secrets
A Pakistan court handed former prime minister Imran Khan a 10-year jail term on Tuesday for leaking state secrets, the former premier’s media team said, his second conviction in recent months and just 10 days before the country’s general election. CBC | World News
Read More »Pakistan retaliatory airstrikes on Iran kill at least 9 people
Pakistan’s air force launched retaliatory airstrikes in Iran early Thursday allegedly targeting militant hideouts, an attack that killed at least nine people and further raised tensions between the neighbouring nations. CBC | World News
Read More »Pakistan says two children killed in Iranian missile strike, recalls ambassador
Officials in Pakistan called the missile attack a “blatant breach” of its sovereignty and reported that a 6-year-old girl and an 11-month-old boy had been killed. Iran says its missiles targeted separatist militant group Jaish al-Adl, which seeks an independent Baluchistan in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. CBC | World News
Read More »Six Afghan families with ties to Canada have been deported from Pakistan, veterans group says
Six Afghan families with ties to Canada have been deported from Pakistan back to Afghanistan, a Canadian veterans group says. CBC | World News
Read More »Miller still hopes to see Afghans from Pakistan arrive in ‘next few weeks’
The federal government is still speaking to counterparts in Pakistan and planning for flights of Afghans to arrive here from Islamabad in the next few weeks, Immigration Minister Marc Miller told journalists at a news conference in Toronto on Thursday. CBC | World News
Read More »Pakistan begins mass deportations of Afghans living there illegally
Pakistani security forces on Wednesday rounded up, detained and deported dozens of Afghans who were living in the country illegally, after a government-set deadline for them to leave expired, authorities said. CBC | World News
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