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Firm stance: PTI won’t leave the election field, Sarwar says
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf will not boycott local government elections even though the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has…
Ruling party to rig LG polls, says Wattoo
The Election Commissioner of Pakistan and Secretary Election Commission should immediately take notice of the massive rigging…
SC adjourns NA-154 by-poll matter till today
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Monday adjourned hearing till today (Tuesday) into NA-154 Lodhran by election case. A three-member…
ECP issues code of conduct for LG elections in ICT
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday issued the code of conduct for upcoming local government elections…
ECP allows Fafen to monitor LG polls in Punjab, Sindh
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has agreed to allow the Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) to be…
LG department-ECP agreement challenged in SHC
KARACHI: Agreement between the Sindh local government and the provincial election commissioner on not changing the status of 23…
Polls cannot be held under current set up, court told
ISLAMABAD: Local government polls in Islamabad could not be held under the current arrangement as it was ‘incompatible and…
Imran receiving funding from Jews: Fazl
ISLAMABAD: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, has alleged that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf…
The truth about pre-2013 transfer of votes
ISLAMABAD: After realizing that not a single vote registered in NA-122 in the electoral rolls of 2013 general elections has been…
PEMRA should impose ban on announcing unverified poll results: ECP Secretary
ISLAMABAD: Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Yaqoob Babar has said that Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory…
Campaigning for LG polls continues in full swing
LAHORE: In contrast to the decreasing mercury level, the political temperature in the city is rising with only five days left…
Process of filing nomination papers for Islamabad LG polls begins today
ISLAMABAD: The process of filing nomination papers for Local Government (LG) elections in Islamabad has begun today (Monday).…
ECP bars PTI, PML-N from holding rallies in Faisalabad
FAISALABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday has stopped Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim…
First phase of LG polls in Punjab, Sindh on Oct 31
ISLAMABAD: The first phase of local government (LG) elections in Punjab and Sindh will begin on October 31. The polling will be…
Emerging LB scenario in Sindh
How important will be the forthcoming local bodies elections for Muttahida Qaumi Movement, MQM, particularly in the backdrop of…
Over 35 MPs surviving on litigations
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ruling on the high-profile NA-154 constituency of Lodhran, where the October 11 by-election could…
Lessons from NA-122 by-election
The feverish phase of the bye-elections in Lahore is now over. The PML-N again carried the day when its potential candidate, Ayaz…
LG election date put off for two days
ISLAMABAD: Polling for the third and final phase of local government elections in Punjab and Sindh has been put off for two days…
Bilawal concerned over transfer of ECP officials in Umerkot
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday expressed concern over the transfers of returning…
ECP asserts its authority to examine party funds
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asserted its unlimited powers to scrutinise funding of the political…
SC takes strong notice of PTI bashing move
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court yesterday took strong exception to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf bashing of its stay order on social…
Assets details filed: Membership of 58 lawmakers restored
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has restored the membership of 58 lawmakers as they submitted details of…
PTI seeks Form-A copies to verify voter lists
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has written a letter to the Punjab Election Commission seeking copies of Form-A along with…
Pakistan refuses to attend SAARC Training Conference in India
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday refused to participate in SAARC Training Conference in India citing…
Last phase of LG polls in Punjab, Sindh on Dec 5
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan approved on Wednesday a proposal to change the polling date for the last phase of…
35 polling booths likely to be relocated to Lahore for LB Polls
At least 35 returning officers on Wednesday approved the pleas of participating candidates in local government elections for…
Nobody should be under political pressure for LB polls: CEC
KARACHI: The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan, said on Wednesday that governments come…
LHC directs ECP to decide LG polls’ fate
LAHORE: Justice Ijazul Ahsan of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to decide a…
IHC defers hearing of pleas till 26th
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court yesterday deferred the hearing of eight petitions moved by Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf and others…
‘Opposition parties conference’ on 27th: PTI
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab Organiser Chaudhry Sarwar has urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to…
Mazharul Haq, Arbab Alamgir, Asma among 13 facing NAB probe
ISLAMABAD: Top leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan are among those 13…
QWP gets more attractive berths in KP cabinet
ISLAMABAD: While rejoining the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government after a 20-month break, Aftab Sherpao-led Qaumi Watan Party…
Over 1,500 officers refuse to perform duties in LB polls
As many as 1,500 government officers on Thursday refused to perform duties assigned by concerned departments in the upcoming…
ECP begins probe into ‘tampered’ NA-122 voter lists
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has started investigations of votes transferred out of the NA-122 constituency, Lahore,…
PTI doing politics instead of giving evidence on votes transfer claim
ISLAMABAD: While the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is eagerly awaiting any credible documentary proof of alleged transfer…
Data provided by PTI to news channels proves to be fake
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in its rush to level maximum rigging allegations finally faces criminal and fraud…
Military can’t be deployed at each polling station: ECP
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has said military personnel cannot be deputed at each polling station for…
ECP asks Punjab, Sindh govts to identify sensitive polling stations for LG elections
ISLAMABAD: In order to determine where army and Rangers personnel should be deployed, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)…
SC urged to overturn LHC verdict on delimitation in Rawalpindi
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court summoned on Tuesday 19 respondents named in an appeal moved by the Election Commission of Pakistan…
LG department withdraws plea against proposals for new UCs
KARACHI: The counsel for the local government department withdrew a petition from the Sindh High Court on Tuesday against the…