ISLAMABAD: Hearing a set of petitions challenging the Elections Act, 2017, which paved way for disqualified prime minister Nawaz Sharif to regain presidency of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Wednesday observed that under Article 5 of the constitution, criticising the courts …

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday dismissed Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s request to disqualify PTI minister and MPA Ziaullah Afridi for joining PPP. In the reference, filed on September 27 last year, the PTI chief had sought Afridi’s disqualification from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on the …

There is an imbalance in Canadian politics. It takes most obvious form in the presence, federally and in some provinces, of two parties on the left to only one on the right. But its essence is not institutional but psychological. It is the crippling insecurity of the right, a crisis …