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16 elected unopposed on reserved seats

TAXILA: Some 16 candidates, including six women, were elected unopposed on reserved seats in the union councils (UC) before the…

PPP selects candidates for reserved seats

MIRPURKHAS: Pakistan Peoples Party candidates for the reserved seats of the Mirpurkhas district council filled in their…

KP DCs get oversight, guidance role on budget-making by district govts

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local government and rural development department has notified budget rules for all three tiers…

Kohat district council approves Rs330m budget

KOHAT: The district council, Kohat, on Thursday unanimously approved the developmental and non-developmental budget for the…

Rs250m projects for Peshawar

PESHAWAR: The district government, Peshawar, has approved Rs250 million for development schemes in 92 union councils of the…

MQM challenges LG Amendment Bill in SHC

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Thursday challenged the Local Government Amendment Bill 2013 in the Sindh High Court.

Devolution process to continue, says minister

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination Riaz Hussain Pirzada on Thursday reiterated that the ministry would…

Shaukat Dawood quits PTI, rejoins PML-N due to PTI’s lack of seriousness

Former provincial minister Chaudhry Shaukat Dawood on Thursday quitted Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and rejoined Pakistan…

Rigging concerns: Street protests if justice is not done, warns Imran Khan

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday said the party would once again take to the streets if justice…

Fate of some key MPs still hanging in balance

ISLAMABAD: Even after thirty months, the 2013 general elections blues continue to haunt the political landscape with the fate of…

SC nullifies tribunal verdict to de-seat Murtaza Jatoi

The Supreme Court on Wednesday annulled the verdict of an election tribunal to de-seat Federal Minister for Industries and…

PTI wants army at polling stations in AJK elections

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has called for deployment of military personnel inside and outside the polling…

Reserved seats: Names of winning candidates notified

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday notified the names of candidates who had won reserved seats of…

SC seeks reports on local govt functioning

ISLAMABAD: Provincial governments’ reported resistance to empower recently elected local bodies attracted attention of the…

LHC turns down PPP’s request against LG ordinance

LAHORE: Lahore High Court Justice Shahid Waheed on Wednesday turned down the request of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Punjab…

SC orders voter verification in Saad Rafique’s constituency

LAHORE / ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has ordered verification of voters in NA-125 (Lahore-VIII), the constituency won by the…

Aleem’s plea against rigging dismissed

LAHORE: The election tribunal on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by Abdul Aleem Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf,…

SC orders re-election in PS-23 Naushero Feroze

The Supreme Court has ordered re-election to the PS-23 constituency of Naushero Feroze. Masroor Ahmad Jatoi had earlier been…

SC reserves verdict in PB-16 Loralai election matter

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved verdict in a election matter over Balochistan Assembly's PB-16 Loralai…

SC disses tribunal's NA-211 verdict, Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi's case to be reviewed

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court (SC) has annulled tribunal’s verdict that de-seated Federal Minister for Industries and Production…

PML-N leaders get RMC tickets for relatives

RAWALPINDI: That the local leaders are lobbying for securing party tickets to reserved seats of the Rawalpindi Municipal…

Provinces ‘ignore’ Centre’s proposed amendments to LG laws

ISLAMABAD: Provincial bodies seem to have snubbed the parliamentary panel’s proposal to amend the local government laws.

ECP notifies results of LG reserved seats in capital

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has notified results of reserved seats in the local government (LG)…

PTI foreign funding case: Ruling party legislator lashes out at ECP for ‘leniency’

ISLAMABAD: A ruling party’s lawmaker lashed out at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)…

AJK elections: Imran Khan forms committee to award tickets

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman PTI Imran Khan has constituted a powerful four-member committee tasked with awarding…

SC disqualifies PML-N MNA for concealing assets

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday disqualified Justice (retd) Iftikhar Ahmed Cheema, the returned candidate of the ruling…

AJK Council’s advice on CEC valid: SC

MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Supreme Court on Monday declared that the advice issued by the AJK Council in…

Local governments: Court asked to annul amendments allowing open division polls

LAHORE: Opposition parties have requested the Lahore High Court to set aside latest amendments in the Punjab Local Government…

Grouping may cost PPP two members in RMC

RAWALPINDI: Due to internal politics and groupings, the number of PPP members in the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has…

118 file nominations for reserved seats in Taxila, Attock

TAXILA: As many as 118 candidates have filed nomination papers for 36 reserved seats in the local government of Taxila and Attock.

Protesting councillors ask for ‘full powers’

LAKKI MARWAT: Local government representatives held a protest demonstration in Lakki city on Monday to press the government to…

Mansehra nazims, naib nazims to protest denial of funds

MANSEHRA: The nazims and naib nazims of village and neighbourhood councils in Mansehra have formed a committee to plan agitation…

PPP clinches poll triumph in Badin as Mirza group cries foul

BADIN: Pakistan Peoples Party clinched three of the four union councils and eight of the 18 wards where polling was held on…

PPP hands PML-F historic defeat in Sanghar LG election

SANGHAR: In an unprecedented upset, the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) lost 10 of the 11 town committees in Saturday’s…

PML-N claims majority support for dist head

RAHIM YAR KHAN: MNA Makhdoom Khusru Bakhtiar of PML-N claims that his party has got support of a majority of chairmen for the top…

Peace prevails in Sanghar, Badin districts during LG election

BADIN/SANGHAR: Polling for four union councils and two town committees of Badin district was held in an absolutely peaceful and…

Only 43 aspirants for 117 reserved seats for minorities in UCs

GUJRAT: Only 43 candidates have applied against 117 reserved seats for minorities in rural union councils of Gujrat district; 830…

ECP faces internal strife over reshuffle

ISLAMABAD: A large-scale, ‘arbitrary’ reshuffle in the country’s top polling supervisory body is likely to lead to more bickering…

Local body elections: PML-Q to challenge ‘black law’ in court

LAHORE: PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain and former deputy prime minister Pervaiz Elahi say the PML-N has introduced a…

PML-N MPs, office-bearers pitch relatives on reserved seats

SAHIWAL: Senior local leaders of the PML-N have shown their reservations about the nomination of close relatives of the PML-N…