DERA MURAD JAMALI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday presented a five-point charter of demands to PML-N government, threatening to launch a country-wide protest if ruling party failed to meet the demands.
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PESHAWAR: PML-N is likely to announce names of the central and provincial councils while intra-party elections are due since Dec 2015. The annoyed workers have announced to resist any unilateral appointments by the central leadership without taking them on board.
SAHIWAL: Around 100 petitions have been filed by the losing candidates of Sahiwal division with an election tribunal (ET) regarding the local government election results.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) asserted on Friday that there was no other way of holding elections on reserved seats in local governments of Sindh except through show of hands.
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed the Punjab Local Government (first and second amendment) Bills 2016 as the “united opposition” in the House opted to walk out.
LAHORE: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) halted the process for election to reserved seats at various levels of local bodies hours after the provincial government got a law passed from the Punjab Assembly on Thursday, amending the procedure for the polls.
KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday postponed elections on over 9,500 reserved seats of all the local councils — from union councils to the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation — citing that the matter is pending in court.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has come under fire for setting a new precedence by postponing polls on reserved seats in local bodies of Sindh and Punjab on the basis of petitions pending adjudication.
ISLAMABAD: A candidate is not disqualified to contest election merely because a criminal case is pending against him, said the apex court in its judgment on NA-89 yesterday.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Aleem Khan has not been allowed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) access to ballot papers cast in the by-election to NA-122 Lahore or the Nadra data but has been permitted inspection of the record of transfer of votes and registration of new electorates during a specific period.
ISLAMABAD: While the ruling party is battling to gain popularity in urban Islamabad, it does not want to do it while risking its grip on rural areas.
LAHORE: The government told Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday that the Local Government (Amended) Ordinance 2016 had been placed before the provincial assembly for approval.
ISLAMABAD: On Wednesday, the PML-N filed the nomination papers of Sheikh Ansar Aziz for the office of Mayor of Islamabad, and of Riffat Javed, Zeeshan Naqvi and Azam Khan for the offices of three deputy mayors.
HARIPUR: The elected village and neighbourhood councillors all over the district have demanded of the government to restore the Local Government Act, 2013 in its original form and enforce it across the province forthwith.
Islamabad: The mayors and chairmen of local governments in Punjab and Sindh will be finally in place early next month after a long time with Law Minister Rana Sanaullah saying that merit would be strictly observed in picking up the heads of the local councils.
