Explanation

In September 2023, The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) released nationwide voter data from 2018 to 2023, which show that the total number of registered voters in the country increased from 105.95 million (105,955,409) in 2018 to nearly 127 million (126,980,272) in 2023.

The number of voters increased by 21 million during last four years.

Explanation

Mayor Election (Karachi)

Held: 14 June 2023

Winner: Murtaza Wahab (PPP)

Murtaza Wahab won: 173 votes

Second position: Naeemur Rehman (JI)

Naeemur Rehman won: 160 votes

Note: Jamaat-e-Islami rejected Karachi mayor election results, announces ‘black day’ on 15 June 2023

Explanation

On 5 January 2025, PPP’s Candidate Ali Madad Jattak retained his Balochistan Assmebly seat in the by-election of PB-45 Quetta.

Elections held on the Election Tribunal’s order.

Nasarullah Zerey of the Pashtunkhwa National Awami Party (PkNAP) secured second position.

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Explanation

Jahangir Tareen launches new political party Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party on 8 June 2023.

Explanation

Explanation

In March 2023, Ales Baliatski of Belarus, has been sentenced to 10 years in Jail.

Case: Smuggling money & finance of opposition's protests in Belarus

Note: The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties.

Explanation

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)  the verdict in PTI leader Faisal Vawda's dual nationality case, disqualifying him as a lawmaker.

Faisal Vawda had resigned as an MNA in March 2021, on the day of Senate election, but he will no longer be a Senator after the conclusion of his disqualification case.

Vawda had won the 2018 general election from Karachi's NA-249 constituency.

Explanation

Explanation

Jahangir Tareen launches new political party Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party on 8 June 2023.

Tareen resigned on 12 February 2024.

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Explanation

Justice Shahid Karim of the Lahore High Court annulled Section 124-A, of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), dealing with Sedition .

Judgment date: 30 March 2023

Section 124-A is known as the ‘sedition law’.

Sedition means بغاوت

لاہور ہائیکورٹ نے بغاوت کی دفعہ 124 اے تعزیرات پاکستان کو کالعدم قرار دے دیا۔