OMLANKA
Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party led by former Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has led in partial results of the Pakistan's general election held on Wednesday. With just 30 per cent of the total vote counted, it leads in 113 of 272 contested National Assembly constituencies.
People of Pakistan are taking part in a general election that is poised to choose a National Assembly of 272 members. More than 3,000 candidates are contesting for 272 general seats of the National Assembly. Meanwhile, around 8,000 candidates are contesting for 577 general seats of the four provincial assemblies - Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
68 year old former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam were taken into custody by security forces on arrival in Lahore on Friday.
British Prime Minister Theresa May hosted a luncheon to United Staates President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at Blenheim Palace on Thursday July 12. The dinner itself was closed to the press, but shortly before 8 p.m., Mr. and Ms. Trump arrived at the place and were greeted by Mrs. May and her husband, Philip.
A novel tilted 'The English Patient' authored by Sri Lankan born Canadian Michael Ondaatje won the Golden Man Booker Prize in London. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker prize, the shortlist of five novels was selected by a panel of judges from the 51 previous winners of the Man Booker, which honors the best novels written in English and published in Britain or Ireland.
