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Pakistani general election, 2018

Index Pakistani general election, 2018

` General elections are scheduled to be held in Pakistan on 25 July 2018 between prime candidates Muna Sharif and Muna Bhutto Zardi and Muna Khan. [1]

104 relations: All Pakistan Muslim League, Associated Press, Awami National Party, Azadi march, Balochistan provincial election, 2018, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Bridge loan, By-election, Calibri, Centre-left politics, Centre-right politics, Centrism, Coalition government, Computerised National Identity Card, Constituency NA-125, Constitution of Pakistan, Daily Pakistan, Dawn (newspaper), Dunya News, Economic Coordination Committee (Pakistan), Election Commission of Pakistan, Far-right politics, Farooq Sattar, Fazl ur Rahman, First-past-the-post voting, Gallup Pakistan, Geo TV, Imran Khan, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Ishaq Dar, Islamism, Jahangir Khan Tareen, Jamiat Ulema-e Islam (F), Joint investigation team, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election, 2018, Lahore High Court, Left-wing politics, Letters patent, List of Chief Ministers of Punjab (Pakistan), Maryam Nawaz, Minister for Law and Justice (Pakistan), Mossack Fonseca, Muhammad Iqbal Shah, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan, NA-120 by-election, 2017, ..., NA-131 (Lahore-IX), NA-134 (Lahore-XII), NA-161 (Lodhran-II), NA-192 (Dera Ghazi Khan-IV), NA-200 (Larkana-I), NA-243 (Karachi East-II), NA-246 (Karachi South-I), NA-249 (Karachi West-II), NA-3 (Swat-II), NA-35 (Bannu), NA-53 (Islamabad-II), NA-8 (Malakand Protected Area), NA-9 (Buner), NA-95 (Mianwali-I), National Accountability Bureau, National Assembly of Pakistan, National Database and Registration Authority, Nawaz Sharif, Offshore company, Pakistan, Pakistan Armed Forces, Pakistan Muslim League (N), Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Pakistani general election, 2013, Pakistani rupee, Panama Papers, Pervez Musharraf, Peshawar, President of Pakistan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Provincial Assembly of Balochistan, Provincial Assembly of Sindh, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, Punjab, Punjab provincial election, 2018, Punjab, Pakistan, Ramadan, Returning officer, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Sharif family, Shehbaz Sharif, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, Sindh provincial election, 2018, Siraj-ul-Haq, Snap election, Supreme Court of Pakistan, The Nation (Pakistan), The New York Times, The News International, Upset (competition), White paper, Zahid Hamid, 2014 Peshawar school massacre. Expand index (54 more) »

All Pakistan Muslim League

All Pakistan Muslim League or APML.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Awami National Party

The Awami National Party (ملي عوامي ګوند, عوامی نيشنل پارٹی; Acronym: ANP), is a secular and leftist Pashtun nationalist political party in Pakistan.

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Azadi march

The Azadi march, also known as the tsunami march (آزادی مارچ, lit. "freedom march"), was a protest march in Pakistan from 14 August to 17 December 2014.

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Balochistan provincial election, 2018

Provincial elections are scheduled to be held in the Pakistani province of Balochistan on 25 July 2018.

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Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Bilawal Zardari (born 21 September 1988) is the Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party and the candidate for the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the upcoming Pakistani general election, 2018.

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Bridge loan

A bridge loan is a type of short-term loan, typically taken out for a period of 2 weeks to 3 years pending the arrangement of larger or longer-term financing.

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By-election

By-elections, also spelled bye-elections (known as special elections in the United States, and bypolls in India), are used to fill elected offices that have become vacant between general elections.

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Calibri

Calibri is a sans-serif typeface family designed by Luc(as) de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2007, with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista.

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Centre-left politics

Centre-left politics or center-left politics (American English), also referred to as moderate-left politics, is an adherence to views leaning to the left-wing, but closer to the centre on the left–right political spectrum than other left-wing variants.

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Centre-right politics

Centre-right politics or center-right politics (American English), also referred to as moderate-right politics, are politics that lean to the right of the left–right political spectrum, but are closer to the centre than other right-wing variants.

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Centrism

In politics, centrism—the centre (British English/Canadian English/Australian English) or the center (American English/Philippine English)—is a political outlook or specific position that involves acceptance or support of a balance of a degree of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy, while opposing political changes which would result in a significant shift of society either strongly to the left or the right.

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Coalition government

A coalition government is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which many or multiple political parties cooperate, reducing the dominance of any one party within that "coalition".

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Computerised National Identity Card

The Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) is an identity card issued by Pakistan's National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA).

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Constituency NA-125

Constituency NA-125 (Lahore-VIII) (این اے-۱۲۵، لاهور-۸) was a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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Constitution of Pakistan

The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu), also known as the 1973 Constitution is the supreme law of Pakistan.

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Daily Pakistan

The Daily Pakistan (روزنامہ پاکستان) is a daily newspaper in Pakistan, published both in Urdu language and in English.

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Dawn (newspaper)

DAWN is Pakistan's oldest, leading and most widely read English-language newspaper.

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Dunya News

Dunya News is a 24 hours Urdu language news and current affairs television channel from Pakistan.

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Economic Coordination Committee (Pakistan)

The Economic Coordination Committee (reporting name:ECC), is a principle federal institution and a consultative forum used by the people-elected Prime Minister of Pakistan as its chairman, for concerning matters of state's economic security, geoeconomic, political economic and financial endowment issues.

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Election Commission of Pakistan

The Election Commission of Pakistan (انتخابی دفتر پاکستان), is an independent, autonomous, permanent and constitutionally established federal body responsible for organizing and conducting of elections to state parliament, provincial legislatures, local governments, elections to the office of President of Pakistan, delimitation of constituencies and preparation of Electoral Rolls.

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Far-right politics

Far-right politics are politics further on the right of the left-right spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of more extreme nationalist, and nativist ideologies, as well as authoritarian tendencies.

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Farooq Sattar

Muhammad Farooq Sattar (born 9 April 1959) is a Pakistani politician who has formerly been Convener and the leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement Pakistan.

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Fazl ur Rahman

Fazl ur Rahman or Fazl-ur-Rehman, the first element also spelled Fazal, (فضل الرحمان.) is a male Islamic given name, meaning bounty of the Merciful One.

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First-past-the-post voting

A first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting method is one in which voters indicate on a ballot the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins.

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Gallup Pakistan

Gallup Pakistan, affiliated to Gallup International Association, is a research organization located in Pakistan.

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Geo TV

Geo TV (trademarked GEO TV) or Geo Television is a Pakistani television channel established in May 2002 and owned by the Independent Media Corporation.

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Imran Khan

Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi PP, HI (born 5 October 1952) is the Chairman of Pakistan Movement of Justice and the candidate for the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the upcoming Pakistani general election, 2018.

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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is an independent Washington D.C.-based international network.

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International Foundation for Electoral Systems

The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) is an international, non-profit organization founded in 1987.

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Ishaq Dar

Muhammad Ishaq Dar (محمد اسحاق ڈار; born) is a Pakistani politician, belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), who had been a Member of the Senate of Pakistan, from 2003 to 2018.

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Islamism

Islamism is a concept whose meaning has been debated in both public and academic contexts.

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Jahangir Khan Tareen

Jahangir Khan Tareen (born 4 July 1953) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan thrice between 2002 and 2017.

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Jamiat Ulema-e Islam (F)

Jamiat Ulema-e Islam (F) (Urdu: (English: Assembly of Islamic Clerics; Acronym: JUI(F), JUI-F, or JUIF) is a Sunni Deobandi political party in Pakistan. Established as JUI (Jamiat Ulema-e Islam) in 1945, it is the result of a factional split of 1988, F standing for the name of its leader, Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman. JUI-F is as of 2013 Pakistan's 5th largest party, winning 3.2% of the popular vote, or 15 out of 272 general seats in the National Assembly. It is entirely based in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and northern parts of Baluchistan. The party is in coalition with Pakistan's current ruling party Pakistan Muslim League (N). The JUI-S faction, led by Samiul Haq, is of regional significance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa but has no representation on the national level. The split of JUI into two factions was due to dissent over the policy of president Zia-ul-Haq of supporting Mujahideen outfits in the Afghanistan war during the 1980s. A more recent faction known as JUI-N, split off JUI-F in 2008, is also unrepresented at the national level.

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Joint investigation team

Joint investigation teams (JIT) are teams formed jointly by national investigative agencies to handle cross-border crime.

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (abbreviated as KP; خیبر پختونخوا; خیبر پښتونخوا) is one of the four administrative provinces of Pakistan, located in the northwestern region of the country along the international border with Afghanistan.

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly is the unicameral legislative body of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election, 2018

Provincial elections are scheduled to be held in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 25 July 2018.

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Lahore High Court

The Lahore High Court is based in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.

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Letters patent

Letters patent (always in the plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president, or other head of state, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title, or status to a person or corporation.

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List of Chief Ministers of Punjab (Pakistan)

The Chief Minister of Punjab (Urdu: وزیر اعلیٰ پنجاب) is elected by the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab and serves as the head of the provincial government in Punjab, Pakistan.

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Maryam Nawaz

Maryam Nawaz Sharif (born 28 October 1973), also known by her married name as Maryam Safdar, is a Pakistani politician who is the daughter of three-time Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif and the three-time First Lady of Pakistan Kalsoom Nawaz Sharif.

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Minister for Law and Justice (Pakistan)

The Law Minister of Pakistan heads the Ministry of Law, Justice & Human Rights.

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Mossack Fonseca

Mossack Fonseca & Co. (was a Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider,. The Legal 500 It was, at one time, the world's fourth biggest provider of offshore financial services. From its 1977 foundation until the April 2016 publication of the Panama Papers it remained mostly obscure, even though it sits at the heart of the global offshore industry, and acts for about 300,000 companies. More than half are registered in British tax havens – as well as in the UK. The firm received worldwide media attention in April 2016, when the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published information about its clients' financial dealings in the Panama Papers articles, following the release of an enormous cache of its documents from between 1970 and 2015 leaked to the news media. Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who lead the disclosure efforts, was subsequently murdered by a car bomb on October 16, 2017. On March 14, 2018, the law firm announced that it was shutting down, because of the economic and reputational damage inflicted by the disclosure of its role in global tax evasion by the Panama Papers.

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Muhammad Iqbal Shah

Muhammad Iqbal Shah Qureshi is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, from February 2018 to May 2018.

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Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal

The Muttahida Majlis–e–Amal (MMA) (Urdu:; lit. United Council of Action), is a political alliance consisting of ultra–conservative, Islamist, religious, and far-right parties of Pakistan.

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Muttahida Qaumi Movement

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) (متحدہ قومی موومنٹ), is a secular political party in Pakistan that was founded by Altaf Hussain in 1984.

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Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan

Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (متحدہ قومی موومنٹ MQM-P) is a political party in Pakistan.

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NA-120 by-election, 2017

There was a by-election in the Pakistani parliamentary constituency of NA-120 on 17 September 2017, following the decision given by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to disqualify Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from public office.

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NA-131 (Lahore-IX)

NA-131 (Lahore-IX) (این اے-١٣١، لاہور-٩) is a newly-created constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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NA-134 (Lahore-XII)

NA-134 (Lahore-XII) (این اے-١٣٤، لاہور-١٢) is a newly-created constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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NA-161 (Lodhran-II)

NA-161 (Lodhran-II) (این اے-۱٦١، لودهراں-٢) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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NA-192 (Dera Ghazi Khan-IV)

NA-192 (Dera Ghazi Khan-IV) (این اے-١٩٢، ڈیرہ غازيخان-٤) is newly-created a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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NA-200 (Larkana-I)

NA-200 (Larkana-I) (این اے-٢٠٠، لاڑکانہ-١) is a newly-created a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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NA-243 (Karachi East-II)

NA-243 (Karachi East-II) (این اے-٢٤٣، کراچی مشرقی-٢) is a newly-created a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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NA-246 (Karachi South-I)

NA-246 (Karachi South-I) (این اے-۲۴۸، کراچی-۱۰) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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NA-249 (Karachi West-II)

NA-249 (Karachi West-II) (این اے-۲۴۱، کراچی-۳) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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NA-3 (Swat-II)

NA-3 (Swat-II) (این اے-٢٩، سوات-١) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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NA-35 (Bannu)

NA-35 (Bannu) (این اے-٢٦، بنوں) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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NA-53 (Islamabad-II)

NA-53 (Islamabad-II) (این اے-53، اسلام آباد-2) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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NA-8 (Malakand Protected Area)

NA-8 (Malakand Protected Area) (این اے-۳۵، مالاکنڈ) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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NA-9 (Buner)

NA-9 (Buner) (این اے-٢٨، بونیر) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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NA-95 (Mianwali-I)

NA-95 (Mianwali-I) (این اے-۷۱، میانوالی-۱) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

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National Accountability Bureau

The National Accountability Bureau (قومی احتساب ادارہ; abbreviated NAB), is an autonomous and constitutionally established federal institution responsible to build efforts against corruption and prepare critical national economic intelligence assessments against economic terrorism to the Government of Pakistan.

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National Assembly of Pakistan

Qaumi Assembly Pakistan (قومی اسمبلئ پاکستان or National Assembly of Pakistan (ایوانِ زیریں پاکستان) is the lower house of the bicameral Majlis-e-Shura, which also comprises the President of Pakistan and Aiwan-e Bala (upper house). The Qaumi Assembly and the Aiwan-e Bala both convene at Parliament House in Islamabad. The National Assembly is a democratically elected body consisting of a total of 342 members who are referred to as Members of the National Assembly (MNAs), of which 272 are directly elected members and 70 reserved seats for women and religious minorities. A political party must secure 172 seats to obtain and preserve a majority. Members are elected through the first-past-the-post system under universal adult suffrage, representing electoral districts known as National Assembly constituencies. According to the constitution, the 70 seats reserved for women and religious minorities are allocated to the political parties according to their proportional representation. Each National Assembly is formed for a five-year term, commencing from the date of the first sitting, after which it is automatically dissolved. Currently the National Assembly can not be dissolved by the President of Pakistan, it is dissolved by the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Election for 13th National Assembly was held on 18 February 2008. On March 17, 2013 13th National Assembly was dissolved on completion of its five-year term under Article 52 of the Constitution. Pakistani general election, 2013 (for the 14th National Assembly) was held on May 11, 2013. Members of 14th National Assembly took oath on June 1, 2013. The 14th National Assembly dissolved on 31 May 2018 after completing its 5 year term.

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National Database and Registration Authority

The National Database and Registration Authority, Pakistan (Urdu:نادرا; reporting name: NADRA), is an independent and autonomous agency under Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan that regulates government databases and statistically manages the sensitive registration database of all the national citizens of Pakistan.

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Nawaz Sharif

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu/میاں محمد نواز شریف, born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani business magnate and former politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms, all of the three terms were unsuccessful.

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Offshore company

The term "offshore company" or "offshore corporation" is used in at least two distinct and different ways.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Pakistan Armed Forces

The Pakistan Armed Forces (پاکستان مُسَلّح افواج, Pākistān Musallah Afwāj) are the military forces of Pakistan.

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Pakistan Muslim League (N)

The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (پاکستان مسلم لیگ (ن) PML-N) is a centre-right conservative party in Pakistan.

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Pakistan Peoples Party

The Pakistan Peoples Party (پاکِستان پیپلز پارٹی, commonly referred to as the PPP) is a left-wing, socialist-progressive political party of Pakistan.

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) (پاکستان تحريک انصاف, English: Pakistan Movement for Justice) is a political party in Pakistan founded in 1996 by former national cricket captain Imran Khan.

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Pakistani general election, 2013

General elections were held in Pakistan on 11 May 2013 to elect the members of the 14th National Assembly and to the four provincial assemblies of Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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Pakistani rupee

The Pakistani rupee (روپیہ / ALA-LC:; sign: ₨; code: PKR) is the currency of Pakistan.

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Panama Papers

The Panama Papers are 11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities.

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Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf (پرویز مشرف; born 11 August 1943) is a Pakistani politician and a retired four-star army general who was the tenth President of Pakistan from 2001 until tendering resignation, to avoid impeachment, in 2008.

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Peshawar

Peshawar (پېښور; پشاور; پشور) is the capital of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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President of Pakistan

The President of Pakistan (صدر مملکت پاکستان —), is the ceremonial head of state of Pakistan and a figurehead who represents the "unity of the Republic." in Chapter 1: The President, Part III: The Federation of Pakistan in the Constitution of Pakistan.

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Prime Minister of Pakistan

The Prime Minister of Pakistan (وزِیرِ اعظم —,; lit. "Grand Vizier") is the head of government of Pakistan and designated as the "chief executive of the Republic".

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Provincial Assembly of Balochistan

The Provincial Assembly of Balochistan is one of the four provincial assemblies of Pakistan.

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Provincial Assembly of Sindh

Provincial Assembly of Sindh (Sindhiصوباۂي اسيمبلي سنڌ, صوبائی اسمبلی سندھ) is a unicameral house of elected representatives of people of Sindh established under Article 106 of the Constitution of Pakistan.

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Provincial Assembly of the Punjab

The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the province of Punjab, which is located in Lahore, Pakistan.

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Punjab

The Punjab, also spelled Panjab (land of "five rivers"; Punjabi: پنجاب (Shahmukhi); ਪੰਜਾਬ (Gurumukhi); Πενταποταμία, Pentapotamia) is a geographical and cultural region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of eastern Pakistan and northern India.

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Punjab provincial election, 2018

Provincial elections are scheduled to be held in Punjab, Pakistan on 25 July 2018.

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Punjab, Pakistan

Punjab (Urdu, Punjabi:, panj-āb, "five waters") is Pakistan's second largest province by area, after Balochistan, and its most populous province, with an estimated population of 110,012,442 as of 2017.

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Ramadan

Ramadan (رمضان,;In Arabic phonology, it can be, depending on the region. also known as Ramazan, romanized as Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (Sawm) to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad according to Islamic belief.

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Returning officer

In various parliamentary systems, a returning officer is responsible for overseeing elections in one or more constituencies.

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Shahid Khaqan Abbasi

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (شاہد خاقان عباسی; born 27 December 1958) is a Pakistani politician who served as the 18th Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2017 to May 2018.

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Sharif family

The Sharif family (شريف خاندان) is a prominent political family of Pakistan, based in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

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Shehbaz Sharif

Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif (born 23 September 1951) is a Pakistani politician who is the current President of the Pakistan Muslim League-N. He recently served as the Chief Minister of Punjab from June 2013 to May 2018 which was his third term.

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Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad

Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad (شيخ رشيداحمد, born 6 November 1950), is a Pakistani politician and the current leader of the Awami Muslim League.

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Sindh provincial election, 2018

Provincial elections are scheduled to be held in Sindh on 25 July 2018.

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Siraj-ul-Haq

Siraj ul Haq (born 5 September 1962) (سراج الحق) is a Pakistani Islamist politician who was elected as the chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious, Islamic democratic party in Pakistan with objective to establish Islamic laws in Pakistan.

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Snap election

A snap election is an election called earlier than expected.

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Supreme Court of Pakistan

The Supreme Court of Pakistan (عدالت عظمیٰ پاکستان; Adālat-e-Uzma Pākistān) is the apex court in the judicial hierarchy of Pakistan.

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The Nation (Pakistan)

The Nation is an English-language daily newspaper based in Lahore, Pakistan since 1986.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The News International

The News International, published in broadsheet size, is the largest English language newspaper in Pakistan.

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Upset (competition)

An upset occurs in a competition, frequently in electoral politics or sports, when the party popularly expected to win (the favorite), is defeated by an underdog whom the majority expects to lose, defying the conventional wisdom.

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White paper

A white paper is an authoritative report or guide that informs readers concisely about a complex issue and presents the issuing body's philosophy on the matter.

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Zahid Hamid

Zahid Hamid (born 24 October 1947) is a Pakistani politician, and lawyer.

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2014 Peshawar school massacre

On 16 December 2014, six gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_general_election,_2018

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