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ECP failed to obey rules during 2015 by-elections: Experts
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentarians and electoral experts here on Wednesday said the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has failed to…
Newly elected LG representatives taking oath today
KARACHI: The newly elected Local Government representatives in Sindh and Punjab are taking oath today (Thursday).
1,464 LB winners to be sworn in today
MULTAN: About 1,464 elected chairmen, vice chairmen and councillors of Multan district will take oath of their offices on…
Fair polls linked to free ECP
ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers from various political parties on Wednesday recommended that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)…
Intra-party polls: Sarwar says he is not quitting PTI
LAHORE: With only a day left before party offices are to be dissolved ahead of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) intra-party…
Draft of unified law for electoral reforms finalized
ISLAMABAD: The Special Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms (SPCER) has almost finalised the draft of a unified law for…
Census may still face hurdles this year
ISLAMABAD: The government is ready to conduct population census in coming March/ April this year provided Pakistan Army agrees to…
Ordinance for appointing acting CEC set aside
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) High Court on Tuesday set aside Ordinance XIX of 2015 to the extent of Section…
ECP threat makes Punjab notify number of special seats
ISLAMABAD: The threat of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) partially worked when the Punjab government notified the number of…
Sindh govt notifies number of reserved seats for secret ballot
KARACHI: The Sindh government has notified number of seats reserved for women, youth, labourers /peasants and non-Muslims who…
Muttahida protest against ECP, PPP govt
KARACHI: A protest demonstration organised by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement outside the Provincial Election Commission’s office on…
Ordinance
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has issued the Sindh Local Government (third amendment) Ordinance, 2016 through which…
Newly-elected local govt members to be sworn in tomorrow
RAWALPINDI: Even after the elected members of the local government take oath to their new offices on Thursday, the bureaucracy…
Waseem Akhtar warns of snatching away ‘powers’ for mayor
KARACHI: The designate mayor of Karachi, Waseem Akhtar has warned that in case the additional powers for Karachi’s mayor being…
Nazims to meet LG minister to know about their duties
KOHAT: District nazim Maulana Niaz Mohammad has said that district nazims from across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will call on Provincial…
Elections for Wari nazim, naib nazim tomorrow
UPPER DIR: The elections for the tehsil nazim and naib nazim offices in Wari tehsil of Upper Dir for the third time is scheduled…
JI to ‘sweep’ next polls, claims Siraj
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Senator Sirajul Haq on Tuesday said his party would win the next election on the basis of…
Imran Khan issues white paper over federal govt’s performance
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, Imran Khan on Tuesday issued a white paper over the performance of the…
ECP clubs Imran’s letter with petition
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission has clubbed the letter received from Pakistan Tehreek-i-Isnaf’s chief Imran Khan seeking…
SC reserves verdict on PS-23 election
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday reserved its verdict in PS-23 (Naushahro Feroze) election matter after hearing the…
SC dismisses petition seeking disqualification of PML-N MPA
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday maintained an election tribunal’s verdict regarding Raees Mehboob Ahmed’s success…
Sindh asks ECP to hold polls on over 9,500 reserved LG seats
KARACHI: A day after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement blamed it for a delay in holding the next phase of local government elections,…
MQM protests delay in transfer of powers to LG institutions
HYDERABAD: Criticising an inordinate delay in elections on reserved seats, and of mayor and deputy mayor after completing three…
General councillors quit ANP, join PTI
NOWSHERA: Three general councillors on Monday resigned from Awami National Party and announced joining the Pakistan…
Politicians, establishment made mistakes in past: Bilawal
LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has stated that every individual and institution should…
10-party alliance poses little threat to PPP in Sindh
ISLAMABAD: The just-fashioned ten-party alliance against the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government in Sindh poses no serious…
Two candidates become party to NA-122 plea
LAHORE: An election tribunal on Thursday allowed two independent candidates of NA-122 to become party in a petition challenging…
ECP summons PB-50 candidates in Islamabad
QUETTA: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has summoned all the four candidates who contested the by-election on a…
Sadiq questions maintainability of NA-122 by-poll plea
LAHORE: An election tribunal on Thursday sought arguments on maintainability of an election petition filed by PTI candidate Abdul…
Govt rigged ICT LG polls: N leader
ISLAMABAD: Former senator of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Syed Zafar Ali Shah yesterday levelled serious allegations…
Raheela to chair first session as PA Speaker
QUETTA: The Governor of Balochistan, Muhammad Khan Achakzai, has summoned the winter session of the provincial assembly on Friday…
Zardari notified as president of PPP-P
LAHORE - Former president Asif Ali Zardari has been notified as president of the all-powerful Pakistan Peoples Party…
Lawmakers, civil society agree on need for fresh delimitation
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentarians, activists and former bureaucrats agreed on Thursday that fresh delimitations of electoral…
ECP sets new date for polling in Sanghar
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced that local government elections in Sanghar district and in…
PML-N’s Baba sweeps PP-89 by-election
TOBA TEK SINGH: According to unofficial results of 147 polling stations, PML-N’s Pir Ali Baba won by-poll for PP-89 by a margin…
SC orders re-polling in Dadu
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC), while setting aside a decision of the election tribunal, ordered re-polling in constituency…
Organisation politics: PTI in deadlock over its intra-party polls
LAHORE: As the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf deliberates the modalities of its much-awaited intra-party polls, the party’s leaders…
MPs body on poll reforms to complete task in two weeks
ISLAMABAD: The Sub-committee of the Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms will finalise its reports within two weeks’ time…
Candidates call for announcement of by-election result
GWADAR: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has failed to announce the result of by-election of PB-50-Turbat-3 where…
Electioneering ends amid victory claims by rivals
TOBA TEK SINGH: The election campaign for by-election to PP-89 ended on Monday amid big rallies and public meetings were both the…