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PHC re-issues contempt notice to Imran Khan
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday re-issued contempt of court notice to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)…
Senators want money but no direct election
ISLAMABAD: Senators across party lines yesterday showed an unprecedented unity demanding fiscal powers for the upper house at par…
PPP, PML-F battle for Mirpur Khas by-election seat
MIRPUR KHAS: A tough contest is being expected between the ruling PPP and opposition PML-F in the by-election of PP-68, Mirpur…
Training of LG poll officials to start on 13th
RAWALPINDI: District Election Commission (DEC), Rawalpindi, from Friday November 13 would start ‘Master Training Programme’ for…
ECP issues final list of LG polls seats in Karachi
KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan issued on Wednesday the final list of seats for the local government elections in…
Army to spare more troops for LG polls
ISLAMABAD: Amid growing security concerns, Pakistan army on Wednesday agreed to spare additional troops as a backup of police and…
Army to be used as quick response force in LG polls, says ECP
ISLAMABAD: The preparations for local bodies election in Islamabad has entered into final phase as the process of allotting…
ECP calls list of sensitive districts in LB polls
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday has summoned a list of sensitive districts in Punjab and Sindh…
LB polls : PAT sends rigging proofs to ECP
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has provided proofs of alleged rigging committed by the Pakistan…
LHC upholds Hassaan’s unopposed win in UC-107
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Shahid Karim on Wednesday dismissed a petition challenging the candidature and election…
Security concerns: PTI says all polling stations are sensitive
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab Organiser Chaudhary Sarwar on Wednesday requested the Election Commission of Pakistan to…
Sindh, Punjab told to suspend arms licences before LG polls
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has directed governments of Punjab and Sindh to suspend arms licences two days…
Zardari likely to end ‘exile’ before 30th
ISLAMABAD: Former President Asif Ali Zardari could end his brief stint of self-imposed exile before the Pakistan People’s Party’s…
Govt should understand corps commanders’ hint, says Khursheed
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah has remarked that Tuesday’s corps commanders…
Reforms body meeting called off for want of members
ISLAMABAD: The Election Reforms Committee could not hold its meeting Tuesday due to want of its members triggering cancellation…
CEC has authority to extend service period of ECP employees: Senate told
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab Ahmed on Tuesday apprised the Senate that the Chief Election…
Nisar rejects as baseless NA-122 vote transfer allegation
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan dismissed on Tuesday as baseless an allegation about transfer of thousands…
PTI prays to SC to dismiss Zafar Ali Shah’s petition
ISLAMABAD: PTI on Tuesday prayed to the Supreme Court to dismiss with heavy costs the petition filed by former PML-N Senator Syed…
ECP adjourns PTI foreign funding case for three weeks
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s foreign funding case was once again stalled on the request by the party lawyer after…
PTI’s Aleem Khan files plea in ECP against speaker Ayaz Sadiq
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Aleem Khan on Tuesday submitted a plea in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seeking…
ECP summons Rai Mujtaba on Nov 26 over alleged torture upon presiding officer
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday summoned to Rai Mujtaba Kharal, former lawmaker over manhandling of…
Dead woman's vote cast in LG polls: LHC takes notice
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has taken notice of reports of a deceased woman's vote being cast in Jaranwala's Union Council 49…
PPP grabbed 70pc LG seats in eight districts of Sindh: ECP
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party swept the first phase of the local government election in eight districts of Sindh by winning…
Opposition says PPP ‘conspiring to rig’ next phases of LG elections
KARACHI: Several opposition parties on Monday expressed fears of rigging in the second and third phases of the local government…
Abid Sher Ali apologises to ECP
PML-N leader and State Minister for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali Tuesday apologised to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)…
Fehmida to place proof of rigging in LG polls before NA
ISLAMABAD: Former Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza on Monday said that she would bring documented proofs of pre…
In LG polls, PTI, PPP and PML-N face the enemies within
KARACHI: Three political parties - the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz…
Re-counting in UC-39 ordered
LAHORE: Justice Farrukh Irfan Khan of the Lahore High Court Tuesday ordered Election Commission of Pakistan to hold re-counting…
ECP issues code of conduct for LG polls in ICT
The decision has been taken in order to ensure that elections of the union councils and wards in ICT are conducted fairly, said…
PM asks people to hold ‘sit-in politicians’ accountable
KASUR: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday asked the people to hold those accountable who had impeded the country’s…
IHC to hear PTI’s plea seeking en masse access to EC data server
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has submitted a petition to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking its direction to…
PTI faces defeat, Ayaz re-elected as NA speaker
ISLAMABAD: The ruling PML-N candidate Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Monday took oath as the Speaker National Assembly for the second time…
Dhurnal — the village where women can’t vote
HYDERABAD: The Secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan, Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad, has said all district returning…
Opposition leaders kept waiting as ECP secy fails to show up at scheduled meetingz
KARACHI: The meeting scheduled between opposition parties of the province and secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan…
2,500 polling stations in Sindh declared sensitive
KARACHI: As many as 2,500 polling stations were declared as highly sensitive in Sindh for the second and third phases of the…
JI not to go ahead with seat adjustment plan with PML-N
ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has decided not to go ahead with seat adjustment plan with the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N)…
Violation of party discipline not to be tolerated, says Sarwar
TOBA TEK SINGH: PTI Punjab organiser Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Monday said the party discipline violation regarding the local…
Ayaz’s second win, another loss for Imran
ISLAMABAD: Sardar Ayaz Sadiq begins his second innings as Speaker National Assembly after being re-elected by a clear margin of…
PTI in turmoil after party expels another MPA
PESHAWAR: Turmoil deepens within Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as senior party members express feelings of distrust after MPAs…
Annoyed PPP activists reject idea of party polls in five districts only
PESHAWAR: The annoyed workers of Pakistan Peoples Party have rejected the idea to hold intra-party elections only in five…