Breaking news on Dunya and three other channels on 16th April 2015 at 1:00 am mentioned that Salman Jigranvi, who is "part of a banned party", was arrested. It was also noted that this is the very first case registered under new "Counter-Terrorism" department. The news ticker on Geo mentioned that this new department has filed its first case against Salman Jigranvi "for distributing hate literature".

These elections are held in accordance to the amended secular constitution of Sudan of 2005 (Nevasha); which seceded South Sudan, and prepared the rest of the regions for division. This government's term ends this April according to this constitution, and therefore elections must take place to choose a President of the Republic and members of parliament, who will take through these elections an alleged legitimacy.

The tone of the secular political parties that advocate banning anti-democratic Islamic parties, which work to undermine the democratic system, in order to impose the Islamic law as claimed by the politicians here; that tone increases. In this particular period, many of the parties that make up the Dutch Parliament (such as CDA Party,

Hizb ut Tahrir in the Wilayah of Pakistan held demonstrations across Pakistan against sending troops to Yemen. Participants held banners and placards declaring "Send Muslims Armies for Liberating Qibla Awwal" and "Unity of Muslims - Only Possible through Khilafah "Caliphate"".