ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has established an Overseas Voting Directorate in the commission for research on the subject and to deal with matters relating to overseas voting.
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ISLAMABAD: In a rare reaction, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday strongly condemned a statement of the National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq wherein he castigated the electoral body for forwarding a petition by the PTI’s Aleem Khan to the election tribunal.
LAHORE: Speaker National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq on Sunday said that sending the election case to the election tribunal without hearing his point of view demonstrates the incompetence and dishonesty on the part of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). He said he was penalised once and now the ECP will have to bear the brunt.
LAHORE: An election tribunal issued on Friday a notice to National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on a petition filed by PTI candidate Abdul Aleem Khan alleging irregularities and pre-poll rigging in the NA-122 (Lahore) by-election.
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan has banned the parliamentarians and members of Punjab Assembly from participating in the by-election in NA-154, which is scheduled to be held on December 23.
MULTAN: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Multan bench on Thursday ordered cancellation of nomination papers of Siddique Khan Baloch for NA-154 by-election candidature.
KARACHI: Talking notice of serious reservations expressed by opposition parties, the election commission on Thursday de-notified the district returning officer (DRO) of Sanghar, Umar Farooq Bullo.
ISLAMABAD: As voters in the federal capital go to the polls to elect local government representatives in what will effectively be the first-ever elections at the grassroots-level, the conduct of these elections will depend heavily on the capacity of election staff.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has summoned Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on December 22 on a plea seeking his disqualification as Member National Assembly (MNA) under article 62, 63 of the constitution.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission and Nadra informed a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that voters’ biometric verification, use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and voting by overseas Pakistanis would not be possible in the next general elections (2018).
ISLAMABAD: In a significant move for facilitating overseas Pakistanis to cast their vote in polls back in the country, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has carried out mock exercise for voting in Pakistan’s mission in Riyadh, New York and Dubai.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to hold by-elections in PP-89 (Toba Tek Singh) on January 6, 2016 and issued schedule. According to spokesman of ECP, the nomination papers will be filed on December 1 and 2 whereas the verification process will be completed on December 9.
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan on Tuesday expressed concern over the high courts’ judgments in matters purely relating to the electoral body’s domain.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Mushtaq Ahmad Khan on Monday criticised Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for not issuing notification of by-polls in PK-95 (Dir-Lower II) and announced province-wide protest and sit-ins outside ECP offices in Islamabad on November 27.
ISLAMABAD – Overruling the election tribunal’s verdict, Supreme Court of Pakistan yesterday de-seated Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) provincial minister Asghar Ali Junejo.
