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PTI behaves soberly by participating in by-elections
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has accepted a bold challenge thrown by the ruling Pakistan Muslim…
LB polls in Islamabad on Nov 30
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday announced the schedule for the first-ever party-based local bodies…
LG member to stay disqualified, maintains PHC
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday maintained a decision of the Election Commission of Pakistan on the…
ECP starts delimitation process in Islamabad
The Election Commission of Pakistan has started the process of delimitation of Union Councils and Wards in Islamabad Capital…
Shujaat arrives in Karachi to unite PML factions
KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain arrived in the port city on Friday in a bid to forge…
Chief election commissioners in many countries had to resign
Electoral processes in troubled democracies and nations with fragmented political structures are often flawed and studded with…
ECP to continue testing biometric system
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to conduct more trials of biometric voter verification machines…
Schedule of LB polls in capital to be issued today, SC told
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will announce the schedule for the local bodies elections in the federal…
ROs told not to ask candidates ‘irrelevant questions’
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued instructions to all returning officers (ROs) appointed for the…
PTI in two minds about local poll concerns
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Punjab chapter may write a letter to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to express…
Administrative departments: New appointments in Sindh banned
KARACHI: The Sindh government imposed a ban on fresh appointments on Thursday. According to a notification, the ban will be…
Split opinion in PML-N on repolling issue
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) faced a split opinion in its high level consultative session on the question…
PML-N challenges PTI to contest in NA-122, NA-154 constituencies
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz today announced their decision to contest by-elections in NA-122 and NA-154…
Imran challenges Nawaz to electoral face-off
Lahore: PTI chief Imran Khan on Thursday evening threw down the gauntlet to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, challenging him to an…
APML leader joins PML-Q
PESHAWAR: Prominent educationist and provincial leader of All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), Asifa Sarwar, announced joining the…
PTI urges CJP to take notice of threats to tribunal judges
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Punjab Organiser Chaudhary Mohammad Sarwar has demanded that the Chief Justice of Pakistan…
NA-154 Lodhran polls also declared void
MULTAN: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lost its third wicket on Wednesday as the Election Tribunal judge Justice (retd)…
PTI not in a hurry to move SJC against EC members
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik Insaf has decided to go slow in launching an all-out agitation against the ECP especially its four…
ECP rejects Khursheed Shah’s resignation demand
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) today rejected opposition leader Syed Khursheed Shah’s demand for the…
ECP announces schedule for first phase of LG polls in Punjab, Sindh
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday formally announced the schedule for the first phase of…
LB polls: LHC annuls district election commission's verdict about delimitation
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday has declared the verdict of district election commission regarding delimitation as…
LG election petitions : LHC CJ requested to form larger bench
LAHORE: Justice Shahid Karim of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday requested Chief Justice to constitute a larger bench to hear…
MQM opposes merger of urban, rural areas in new constituency demarcations
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is unhappy with the way the constituencies have been redrawn by the Sindh government…
A day of momentous events
DUBAI: Three momentous events, unrelated but very relevant to the current situation, took place on Wednesday that will go a long…
Khursheed, Qureshi one on resignation of ECP members
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday demanded the resignation of the…
PM meets partymen today to mull future course
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has summoned a meeting of the senior party leaders today (Thursday) to discuss…
Search for a new ‘Muslim League’ intensifies
LAHORE: Efforts have been intensified to form a ‘new party’, under the possible title of United Muslim League and the leadership…
MQM wants ex-bureaucrats,intellectuals, judges as members
KARACHI: The issue of Muttahida Qaumi Movement lawmakers’ resignations from three legislatures is expected to be settled in a day…
EC rejects Punjab EC member’s resignation
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sardar Raza Khan on Monday refused to accept the resignation of Riaz Kiyani, member Election…
ECP de-notifies Sadiq as MNA
ISLAMABAD: The Elec¬tion Commission of Pakistan (ECP) de-notified on Monday National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq as MNA…
PTI mulls filing reference against ECP members
ISLAMABAD: Forty-eight hours after the election tribunal ordering re-polling in the NA-122 constituency, Imran Khan’s Pakistan…
Nadra report backs PTI stance yet IK wants its head sacked
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan is asking for the resignation of the same Nadra chairman who was being…
Thumb impressions verification no valid reason to declare polls void
ISLAMABAD: While elections are being declared void because of Nadra’ technical stance that thumb impressions manually taken on…
Verdict belies impression of PML-N sympathetic judiciary
ISLAMABAD: Lahore election tribunal judge Kazim Ali Malik was conscious of the fact that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman…
ECP ready for tit for tat response to Imran Khan
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday decided not to get “bullied” by any political party or leader and…
ECP announces by-poll in PP-16
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced on Monday to hold by-election in Punjab Assembly constituency PP-16…
No legal obligation for urgent election of NA speaker
ISLAMABAD: The office of the National Assembly Speaker fell vacant on Monday but neither the Constitution nor any law defines any…
Biometric gizmos fail to verify 54 per cent of voters
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday shared the results of its first pilot project where they used…
ECP to respond to Imran’s letter next week
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has started preparations to respond to the letter written by PTI Chairman…
ECP issues report on failure of system today
ISLAMABAD: Pilot project of Biometric verification of voters at 30 polling stations during by-elections in NA-19 Haripur on…