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PTI, PML-N to announce party tickets for LG election on Friday
RAWALPINDI: The time has come for the arch rivals PTI and the PML-N to disclose their well-guarded secret - the names of their…
JI, PTI reach agreement on Karachi LG polls seat adjustment
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) have reached an agreement on seat adjustment in connection with…
Rapid deployment force being formed for second phase of LG elections
KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to form a Rapid Deployment Force to handle trouble spots and also to launch an…
PML-N revisiting plan for next LB phases
ISLAMABAD: After internal rifts on awarding tickets in the local bodies elections had cost PML-N over a 100 seats, its leadership…
JUI-F supports Dr Mirza’s sit-in against poll violence, rigging
BADIN: The general secretary of the Sindh chapter of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, Maulana Rashid Soomro, on Wednesday pledged…
Nation’s future lies in democratic, liberal Pakistan, says Nawaz
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said the nation’s future lies in a democratic and liberal Pakistan where the…
Nothing is personal for politicians: Khursheed
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Wednesday said politicians were public…
PTI accepts Shafqat’s resignation
LAHORE: The resignation of PTI’s Lahore chapter chief Shafqat Mahmood has been accepted and Punjab organizer Chaudhry Sarwar has…
MPs body terms electronic voting feasible
ISLAMABAD: The sub-committee of the Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms Tuesday termed the electronic voting and…
LB polls: 'Dacoit' elected on PML-N ticket
LAHORE: The election of a dacoit on the PML-N ticket spotlights flaw in the scrutiny system both on the political and election…
Flaws in electoral lists confusing candidates and voters
KARACHI: The voters for the local government polls in 15 districts of Sindh scheduled to be conducted on November 19 are in a…
Women barred from casting ballot
ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of women voters were barred to exercise their fundamental right at one of the union councils in Chakwal…
KP govt notifies LG rules of business
PESHAWAR: Finally, the much-awaited rules of business for different tiers of the local government (LG) system were approved and…
LG polls: What led to PTI’s defeat
LAHORE: Lack of a vigorous campaign unlike the one for NA-122, no criteria for selection of candidates, politics of confrontation…
LB polls: PTI to investigate poor performance
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Punjab organiser Chaudhary Muhammad Sarwar has said PTI’s performance in the local bodies’…
FAFEN calls for more transparency, adherence to law in 2nd phase of LG polls
More transparency and strict enforcement of laws and procedures in the second phase of local government polls are necessary to…
ECP to review arrangements of 2nd phase LG elections on Wednesday
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan would hold a meeting of provincial Chief Election Commissioners to review arrangements…
PTI ought to rethink its policy
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will be further gloomed and doomed beyond retrieval and the Pakistan Muslim…
ECP turned a deaf ear to N rigging: PML-Q
LALAMUSA: The PML-Q said that, before the local bodies elections, it had complained to the Election Commission of Pakistan that…
Abid Sher Ali sees rigging behind defeat of his candidates
LAHORE: Disgruntled Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Abid Sher Ali has termed defeat of his candidates in local government…
SJC throws out PTI’s reference against ECP members
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on Monday rejected a reference filed by the PTI against members of the Election…
ECP members stand vindicated
ISLAMABAD: The four members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), all retired high court judges, who have been unkindly…
Enforcement: ECP calls DRO, DCO and CPO over code of conduct violation
FAISALABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has directed the Faisalabad District Returning Officer (DRO), the DCO and…
Secret behind Sharifs’ success
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N landslide in the first phase of Local Bodies elections in the Punjab has almost stunned the main opposition…
ECP announces new dates for postponed LG elections
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced that the local government elections that were postponed in 79…
ECP yet to fulfill election formalities for LG polls in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: November 9 is less than a week away when the Election Commission of Pakistan is to allot symbols to the candidates of…
Teaching staff: Failure to perform electoral duties results in suspension
KARACHI: Education secretary Fazalullah Pechuho announced on Monday the suspension of all the teachers who did not fulfill their…
PTI claims widespread rigging in Punjab LG polls
LAHORE: Local Government elections in Punjab were nothing more than a Tamasha (spectacle) in which the ruling party carried out…
PPP celebrates LG poll victory amid charges of massive rigging
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party leaders MNA Faryal Talpur, Home Minister Suhail Anwar Siyal and several other lawmakers led…
CM to interview aspiring PML-N candidates: Sana
FAISALABAD: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan has said that the PML-N has constituted a board to interview the intending…
CJ to address Senate
ISLAMABAD: For the first time in the country’s history, a serving chief justice will be addressing the Senate on Tuesday, for…
JUI-F suspends Maulana Wasey’s membership
QUETTA: Serious differences have emerged in the ranks of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) in Balochistan on the issue of joining the…
JI-convened APC supports Fata as part of KP
ISLAMABAD: The All Parties Conference (APC) convened by the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Monday declared full support to the proposed…
MQM senators take back resignations, attend Senate session
ISLAMABAD: The MQM senators withdrew their resignations and attended the Senate session on Monday. In addition, a delegation of…
Official results to be announced before November 3: ECP
ISLAMABAD - Marred by violence and killings, the first phase of Local Bodies (LB) polls concluded yesterday with PML-N leading in…
ECP unable to contact 30 parties
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is trying to reach out to 30 political parties to fulfil the formalities for…
Despite 1,239 Inds, PML-N stays on course of victory in Punjab
LAHORE: As the unofficial results keep pouring in from districts in Punjab and Sindh, it is quite clear at the moment that the…
Happy wins, but misplaced confidence can be damaging
DUBAI: The just concluded local bodies (LB) polls have confirmed one deeply entrenched fact —- status quo —- with all parties in…
Conduct of LB polls was better this time: Fafen
LAHORE: The Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) on Sunday observed that the first phase of the local bodies (LB) elections was…
Will local councils in Punjab be playing second fiddle to govt?
LAHORE: The local councils in Punjab will merely act as constrained agencies of the provincial government, having limited revenue…