National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has informed the Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms on Tuesday that voters’ biometric verification, use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) would be possible in the next general elections (2018), sources said. Zahid Hamid chaired the in camera meeting of the sub-committee of electoral reforms on Tuesday. Chairman NADRA Usman Yousaf Mobeen gave a presentation to the committee on biometric use in the general elections.
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has been the main critic of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for registering over 50,000 new voters in the NA-154 after General Elections 2013 but interestingly it has also been the major beneficiary of such new voters in the by-election in Ladhran held last week.
ISLAMABAD: Over three weeks after completion of the three-phase local government elections in Punjab and Sindh, some information on the gigantic electoral exercise is missing from the official website of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
LAHORE/KARACHI: Polling process is underway in 345 constituencies of local government elections in different districts of Punjab and Sindh where elections were postponed in earlier phases.
LAHORE: Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Senator Sirajul Haq has said the country was facing a chain of crises because of the incompetence and apathy of the rulers while the Election Commission was the biggest hurdle in the way of real democracy.
ISLAMABAD: A week after he secured victory in the by-elections, PTI central leader Jahangir Tareen has been formally notified as member of National Assembly by the election authorities on Monday.
Twelve members of provincial assembly have not yet filed tax returns despite the fact that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) suspended them two and a half months ago.
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary committee on finalising electoral reforms is no closer to completing its task than when it was formed over a year ago. Now grossly behind its deadline, election commission officials fear that if the committee does not act swiftly, there may not be enough time to effect the changes ahead of the 2018 polls.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has directed the elected independent members of Sindh local government to join any political party within seven days of publication of official gazette.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued the code of conduct for upcoming local government (LG) elections on reserved seats of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), barring the holders of public office from influencing the Chairmen of Union Councils.
QUETTA: Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri, the President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Balochistan province, has been elected as Chief Minister of Balochistan unopposed on Thursday
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has restored the membership of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf lawmaker from NA-47 (Tribal Area XII), Qaiser Jamal Khan Afridi, and suspended an election tribunal’s decision that declared his victory void.
QUETTA: Just two days after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly got first female deputy speaker, another woman lawmaker has won the Balochistan Assembly speaker polls.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has postponed the Local Government (LG) polls scheduled on December 30 in district Sanghar and some union councils of Badin due to the law and order situation.
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court appointed Asma Jahangir and Shahzad Shaukat as amicus curies on petitions challenging election of two union councils of district Sargodha, UC-34 and UC-35, for depriving women of their right to vote. The court adjourned the hearing to January 21.
