The bio-metric machines installed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to make the electoral process fair have developed glitches. According to official sources in the ECP, two bio-metric machines installed during the by-polls in Haripur did not give desired results.
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Karachi: Political parties become active for two AJK Legislative Assembly seats reserved for Kashmiris living in Sindh. At his office in Quaidabad, Sardar Mufti Naseer Ahmed, a Kashmiri political activist associated with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, is busy gathering the data of his community members living in the area.
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s NA-122 candidate Abdul Aleem Khan has denounced the Election Commission of Pakistan’s chief as well as all four members for their ‘coward’ decision on his petition to declare the election null and void – alleging that they are getting small favours for their relatives.
ISLAMABAD: The move by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to seek declaration of by-election in NA-122 (Lahore) null and void appeared to have rebounded on it, with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) finding affidavits on vote transfer submitted by the party `absolutely’ bogus.
LAHORE: Justice Shahid Waheed of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday ordered the government to reply within a week to a petition moved on behalf of the Pakistan Awami Party (PAT) against the Punjab Local Government (Amended) Ordinance, 2016.
TAXILA: Some 784 candidates are campaigning for the different reserved seats in the District Council, Municipal Committee and union councils (UC) in the Attock district.
PESHAWAR: The local government representatives, belonging to different union councils of Peshawar, have threatened to start agitation from February 3 if authorities fail to give powers and funds to them under Local Government Act, 2013.
ISLAMABAD: In a bid to prove that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) delivers on its promises, the Imran Khan-led reformist party is planning to invoke constitutional rules for candidates in intra-party elections.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will hold Local Government Elections for indirect seats in Punjab between February 8-14. The elections will be held to fill indirect seats in union councils, district councils, town committees, municipal committees, corporations and Metropolitan Corporation, said a representative of the ECP.
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan People’s Party has planned to mobilise workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through reorganisation.
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would announce its decision on Monday (February 1) on a plea regarding alleged transfer of votes from the NA-122 constituency to other constituencies.
RAWALPINDI: All the PML-N workers contesting elections on reserved seats in the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC), scheduled to be held on February 8, will do so as independent candidates, due to the party’s failure to issue party tickets.
CHAKWAL: The Pakistan National Muslim League (PNML), just one of the many lesser known political parties in the country, rose as the second largest political force in Chakwal after the new Local Government Ordinance was passed, when it did not even exist in Chakwal before this.
LARKANA: With the passage of the new law under which district council members will elect their mayors through raising of hands — to preempt possible defections — and weak opposition, the Pakistan Peoples Party has little to worry about ensuring election of its mayor for Larkana Municipal Corporation (LMC).
AHMEDPUR EAST: Fifteen independent councillors have rejected the PML-N leaders’ offer to join the ruling party. PML-N MNA Ali Hassan Gillani along with Shehzad Suhail Khakwani knocked the doors of all 15 independent councillors and invited them on a luncheon on January 24, 2016.
