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PML-N annoyed workers demand intra-party polls
PESHAWAR: PML-N is likely to announce names of the central and provincial councils while intra-party elections are due since Dec…
Tribunal receives 100 pleas about LG poll results
SAHIWAL: Around 100 petitions have been filed by the losing candidates of Sahiwal division with an election tribunal (ET)…
Show of hands only way to conduct LG polls in Sindh: PPP
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) asserted on Friday that there was no other way of holding elections on reserved seats in…
Opposition stages walkout: LG bills get Punjab Assembly nod
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed the Punjab Local Government (first and second amendment) Bills 2016 as…
ECP halts reserved seats election
LAHORE: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) halted the process for election to reserved seats at various levels of local…
LG elections on 9,500 reserved seats postponed
KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday postponed elections on over 9,500 reserved seats of all the local…
ECP criticised for deferring LG polls in Punjab, Sindh
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has come under fire for setting a new precedence by postponing polls on…
SC restores PML-N MNA’s membership
ISLAMABAD: A candidate is not disqualified to contest election merely because a criminal case is pending against him, said the…
PTI disallowed to have access to ballot papers in NA-122
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Aleem Khan has not been allowed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)…
Islamabad local government: PML-N gives lion’s share to rural representatives
ISLAMABAD: While the ruling party is battling to gain popularity in urban Islamabad, it does not want to do it while risking its…
LG Ordinance tabled in assembly, govt tells LHC
LAHORE: The government told Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday that the Local Government (Amended) Ordinance 2016 had been…
It’s already done in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: On Wednesday, the PML-N filed the nomination papers of Sheikh Ansar Aziz for the office of Mayor of Islamabad, and of…
Lower Dir council session postponed
TIMERGARA: Convener of Lower Dir district council, Abdul Rashid, postponed the council meeting on Wednesday as majority of the…
Govt asked to restore Local Government Act, 2013
HARIPUR: The elected village and neighbourhood councillors all over the district have demanded of the government to restore the…
LG heads to be in place early next month
Islamabad: The mayors and chairmen of local governments in Punjab and Sindh will be finally in place early next month after a…
ECP bio-metric machines not functioning properly
The bio-metric machines installed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to make the electoral process fair have developed…
Kashmir polls fever starts gripping parties in Karachi
Karachi: Political parties become active for two AJK Legislative Assembly seats reserved for Kashmiris living in Sindh. At his…
Justice Wajih writes to Imran, PTI leaders
Justise wajihuddin has written a letter to Imran Khan and PTI leadership. This is with specific reference to the process of PTI…
Aleem unleashes tirade against ECP
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s NA-122 candidate Abdul Aleem Khan has denounced the Election Commission of Pakistan’s chief as…
ECP rejects PTI leader’s petition, says his affidavits on vote transfer are false
ISLAMABAD: The move by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to seek declaration of by-election in NA-122 (Lahore) null and void…
PAT challenges: Govt’s reply sought on local government law
LAHORE: Justice Shahid Waheed of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday ordered the government to reply within a week to a petition…
Over 700 to contest for reserved seats in Attock
TAXILA: Some 784 candidates are campaigning for the different reserved seats in the District Council, Municipal Committee and…
LG representatives to launch agitation for funds, powers
PESHAWAR: The local government representatives, belonging to different union councils of Peshawar, have threatened to start…
Walking the walk: PTI looks to Constitution for intra-party polls
ISLAMABAD: In a bid to prove that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) delivers on its promises, the Imran Khan-led reformist party…
ECP to announce verdict in vote transfer case on Monday
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would announce its decision on Monday (February 1) on a plea regarding alleged…
ECP to hold LG polls for Punjab’s indirect seats from February 8
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will hold Local Government Elections for indirect seats in Punjab between February…
Justice Wajih objects to Imran’s decisions on intra-party polls
LAHORE: Retired Justice Wajihuddin has again criticised the decisions of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman regarding…
PPP to start mobilisation campaign on Monday
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan People’s Party has planned to mobilise workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through reorganisation.
PML-N workers contesting RMC reserved seats as independents
RAWALPINDI: All the PML-N workers contesting elections on reserved seats in the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC), scheduled…
Independents join a lesser known party in Chakwal
CHAKWAL: The Pakistan National Muslim League (PNML), just one of the many lesser known political parties in the country, rose as…
New law, weak opposition put PPP on course to win Larkana mayor elections
LARKANA: With the passage of the new law under which district council members will elect their mayors through raising of hands —…
15 LB winners refuse to get on N bandwagon
AHMEDPUR EAST: Fifteen independent councillors have rejected the PML-N leaders’ offer to join the ruling party. PML-N MNA Ali…
PTI leaders oppose intra-party polls thru SMS voting
LAHORE: The process of second intra-party polls of PTI has become controversial within the party before the expected announcement…
Proposal to skip PTI intra-party polls at UC level raises eyebrows
ISLAMABAD: A proposal to appoint the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) councillors and those, who were named but could not return in…
PML-N-PPP ties enter a new phase
LAHORE: Is the nature of PML-N-PPP relationship changing? Are the statements being made by the leaders of the two parties really…
PML-N expected to sweep election for Islamabad mayor
ISLAMABAD: The federal capital will witness its first ever election for the office of Islamabad mayor, which the ruling PML-N is…
Election for mayor, deputy mayors likely on 15th
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would hold election for a mayor and three deputy mayors for the federal capital on…
Arrangements for census reviewed
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reviewed on Friday progress on efforts aimed at holding population and housing…
Massive transfers in ECP perturb officers
ISLAMABAD: Massive transfer of grade-18 officers in Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has perturbed the affected staff that…
JI asks Sindh govt to devolve powers to local bodies
KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Siraj-ul-Haq has assured his party’s full cooperation to local government institutions in…