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Eligible voters registered in their constituencies: CEC
ISLAMABAD: The Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja said the commission has ensured registration of all eligible…
Voters asked to verify registration status from ECP’s SMS service
ISLAMABAD - Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday asked the voters to check their registration status on new voters’…
Voter gender gap serious challenge, says CEC
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja said on Thursday that the most serious challenge at hand was the…
ECP omits names of over 4 million deceased voters from list
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said on Tuesday that it omitted the names of more than four million deceased…
Punjab govt for delay in publication of delimitation of constituencies
ISLAMABAD - The Punjab government has once again requested the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to delay publication of the…
SHC directs ECP to conduct LB elections within 120 days
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed the Election Commission of Pakistan to conduct local government elections in…
LG dept monitoring system to improve governance
LAHORE: Punjab Local Government and Community Development Department has introduced Human Resource Management Information (HRMI)…
ECP Receives Briefing On Third Strategic Plan 2019-23
ISLAMABAD, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th Sep, 2020 ) :An important meeting of the Election Commission of Pakistan…
Amend Constitution to help LG system function
Underlining the need to create integrated urban governance, noted economist Dr Kaiser Bengali has called for amending the…
Local government polls: ECP constitutes delimitation committees
MULTAN: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has started preparations for local government polls under the new LG system and…
Punjab unlikely to hold local bodies polls soon
RAWALPINDI: Even though the local government system in the province was dissolved two years ago, the provincial government has…
Enrollment Of All Eligible Voters; Reducing Gender Gap Important For Transparent Elections: PEC,Punjab
LAHORE, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 6th Jul, 2020 ) :Provincial Election Commissioner (PEC) Punjab, Ghulam Israr…
Delimitation for new local bodies starts this week
RAWALPINDI: The District Election Commission has completed preparations for conducting fresh delimitations for 15 local bodies in…
Funds Wasted
The delay in local bodies elections is not without consequences. The setup has a critical function to perform in a representative…
COVID-19’s next victim: LG polls
After inflicting irreparable loss to the economy and development plans, COVID-19 has another new victim in its sights. The…
ECP calls for review of delay in local body elections
PESHAWAR: The Election Commission of Pakistan has raised objections to a recent ordinance of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government…
Sania Kamran Declared As Returned Candidate On Punjab Assembly's Women Seat
ISLAMABAD, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Jun, 2020 ) :The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday…
Sindh govt wants strong LG system
KARACHI - Sindh Minister for Local Government (LG) Nasir Hussain Shah and Minister Education Saeed Ghani chaired pre moon soon…
Women Parliamentarians Play An Important Role In Strengthening Democracy
ISLAMABAD, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th Jun, 2020 ): Women Parliamentarians have always been played an important…
CEC calls for urgent steps to bridge male-female voter gap
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja on Wednesday called for taking urgent measures to bridge the gap…
PML-N, PPP doubt govt’s electoral reforms plan
ISLAMABAD: Although the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) seem to be divided over the…
ECP all set to start fresh probe into failure of RTS
ISLAMABAD: Chaudhry Akhtar Nazir Warraich has assumed as Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on a post vacant due to…
Auditor general questions lack of transparency in funds for local bodies
PESHAWAR: The auditor general of Pakistan has raised serious objections over the lack of transparency in the funds the Khyber…
18th Amendment overshadows Covid-19 in NA session
ISLAMABAD: The opposition parties on Monday lashed out at Prime Minister Imran Khan for skipping the National Assembly session…
CEC increases age limit for candidates
ISLAMABAD: In a significant move, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja has increased age limit for the…
Records of 194 councils computerised
MANSEHRA: The Local Government and Rural Development Department has computerised records of all 194 village and neighbourhood…
Federal Cabinet Given Detailed Briefing On Reforms In Electoral, Criminal Justice Systems
ISLAMABAD, May 5 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 5th May, 2020 ) :The Federal Cabinet on Tuesday was given a detailed…
Govt agrees to convene NA session from 11th
ISLAMABAD: The main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday agreed to withdraw its requisition notice after…
PTI doesn’t have courage to touch 18th amend: Bilawal
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Tuesday said the PTI-led federal government lacks the courage to…
Cabinet approves minorities council setup
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the formation and composition of the National Council for Minorities – a body…
Controversy around 18th Amendment likened to opening Pandora’s Box
ISLAMABAD: Participants of an online discussion on Saturday likened the emerging controversy around the 18th Amendment to opening…
MQM-P demands halt to delimitation of LG constituencies till publication of census results
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan has asked the Election Commission to stop the process of delimitation of local…
Punjab implements new Local Govt system
The Punjab government has implemented a new Local Government system in the province. According to media reports, all Union…
SC allows govt to hold elections in Gilgit-Baltistan
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the federal government to amend the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan Order 2018 to…
PM Imran seeks details of speeches made without cabinet approval
ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister’s Office has sought details of the speeches made by the ministries and divisions without the…
Govt has no intention to do away with 18th Amendment: Qureshi
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday said with the government having no intention to do away with…
Shibli Faraz appointed new information minister, Asim Bajwa replaces Firdous Ashiq Awan
PTI Senator Shibli Faraz has been appointed the new information minister of the country, federal minister Fawad Chaudhry and…
ECP member from Punjab made acting chief commissioner
ISLAMABAD: Retired Justice Altaf Ibrahim Qureshi, a member of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) from Punjab, on Friday…
National Voters Day celebrated
Rawalpindi :National Voters Day was celebrated by the Election Commission of Pakistan on Thursday throughout the country, says a…
ECP strategic plan sets targets for improving electoral laws
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday unveiled the third five-year strategic plan setting specific…