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  ISLAMABAD – The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is likely to conduct the presidential election on March 9, just a day before the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan The Pakistani media quoted a senior official of the ECP as saying, "There is a concrete proposal for the election of president on March 9. Once approved, it will follow issuance of the schedule for the electoral process, involving the parliament and provincial legislatures." The next month’s presidential election will witness the 14th head of the state making his way to the President's House. The incumbent president, Dr Arif Alvi, completed his five-year term on September 8 last year but continues to hold the office in the absence of the legislatures, barring the Senate of Pakistan. According to the power-sharing deal struck between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Shehbaz Sharif will run for the prime ministerial slot, while ex-president Asif Ali Zarda

  LAHORE – Maryam Nawaz , the daughter of PML-N supremo, has become the first woman in Pakistan’s history to become a chief minister.A s she was elected as leader of the house in the Punjab Assembly on Monday  The voting to elect new chief minister was held in provincial assembly amid boycott of Sunni Ittehad Council. Maryam Nawaz secured 220 votes while Rana Aftab Ahmed Khan got no votes amid boycott. According to the details, Maryam Nawaz   has been elected as first female Chief minister of Punjab. PML-N leader is also the first woman to hold this office in any of the provinces in the history of Pakistan. The process of vote counting for other members is underway. Pakistan's largest region Punjab summoned assembly session to elect its Chief Minister today as Pakistan Muslim League PML-N, and PTI-backed candidates vying for coveted position. The closely watched polls for Leader of the House in the Punjab Assembly will take place at 11am today. The daughter of PML-N supremo Maryam

  Shahpur Kandi barrage completed after long delay to divert water flow to IIOJ&K ISLAMABAD :  India has stopped the flow of the Ravi River to Pakistan after the completion of Shahpur Kandi barrage, situated on the borders of Indian Punjab and the state of Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, as per Indian media reports. According to a report in India Today, the allotted 1,150 cusecs water of Pakistani share will now benefit the region of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K). The water will be benefiting 32,000 hectares of land in the Kathua and Samba districts. India since long has been committing the water terrorism agenda against Pakistan and now executing the latest project of Shah Kandi barrage that would supposedly be used for ‘irrigation and hydro power generation’ but at the cost of blocking the water flow towards Pakistan. India already has constructed many dams like Bhakra Dam on Sutlej, Pong and Pandoh Dam on the Beas and Thein (Ranjitsagar) on the Ravi. The I

  Russia is nearing a presidential election that is all but certain to extend  Vladimir Putin’s  rule throughout this decade and into the 2030s. The vast majority of votes will be cast over three days from 15 March, though early and postal voting has already begun, including in  occupied parts of Ukraine  where Russian forces are attempting to exert authority. But this is not a normal election; the poll is essentially a constitutional box-ticking exercise that carries no prospect of removing Putin from power. The president’s dominance over the Russian electoral system has already been reinforced as the election looms. The country’s only anti-war candidate has been barred from standing, and Alexey Navalny, the poisoned and jailed former opposition leader who was the most prominent anti-Putin voice in Russia,  died last Friday. Here’s what you need to know about the election. When and where will the election take place? Voting will be held from Friday March 15 until Sunday March 17, the

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HONG KONG —  China  will send a new pair of  giant pandas  to the San Diego Zoo this year, in a boost for what is known as “panda diplomacy” after U.S. zoos were  left with almost none  of the beloved black-and-white bears amid a deterioration in ties between the two superpowers. The China Wildlife Conservation Association has reached agreements with the San Diego Zoo as well as the Madrid Zoo in Spain on “a new round of international cooperation for giant panda conservation,” Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, reported Thursday. It is also in talks with the National Zoo in Washington and the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, the agency said. Megan Owen, vice president of wildlife conservation science at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, which runs the zoo, told The Associated Press that the two pandas, one male and one female, could arrive as early as the end of summer. “We are humbled by the potential opportunity of continuing our collaborative conservation efforts to secure the futur