Current Affairs

  General elections are scheduled to be held in  Pakistan  on 8 February 2024 to elect the members of the  16th   National Assembly . The detailed schedule was announced by  Election Commission of Pakistan  on 15 December 2023. The two major parties are  Pakistan Muslim League (N)  (PML-N), led by former Prime Minister  Nawaz Sharif  and  Pakistan Peoples Party  (PPP), led by former  Foreign Minister   Bilawal Bhutto Zardari .  Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf , the largest party in the previous elections, is forced to field its candidates as Independents after a controversial  Supreme Court ruling  stripped them of their electoral symbol in the run-up to the elections. The table below lists each party that either received a share of the vote higher than 0.5% in the  2018 Pakistan general election  or had representation in the  15th National Assembly of Pakistan . Political parties are ordered by their vote share in the 2018 elections. Independent Candidates bagged 11.46% of the vote and 1