TIMERGARA: The leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami Lower Dir chapter threatened to protest if the notification of their candidate’s victory in PK-95 by-elections is not issued by November 27.
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LAHORE: As many as 39 legislators, mostly belonging to the ruling party, were halted to attend the Punjab Assembly’s 18th session on Thursday, as they did not declare their assets before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) within the due time.
ISLAMABAD: The government has envisioned a “Gilgit-Baltistan style” governance structure for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and a council comprising tribal people to run their own affairs.
ISLAMABAD: Senators across party lines yesterday showed an unprecedented unity demanding fiscal powers for the upper house at par with National Assembly so that they could deliver to masses.
MIRPUR KHAS: A tough contest is being expected between the ruling PPP and opposition PML-F in the by-election of PP-68, Mirpur Khas today (Thursday). The seat fell vacant after the demise of PPP MPA Jameel Bhargari.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Reforms Committee could not hold its meeting Tuesday due to want of its members triggering cancellation of the meeting of the committee mandated to bring electoral reforms in the country.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab Ahmed on Tuesday apprised the Senate that the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) was the competent authority to grant extension in service to employees under the rules.
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan dismissed on Tuesday as baseless an allegation about transfer of thousands of votes in NA-122 by the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) without the consent of the voters concerned prior to the high-profile by-election in the constituency.
ISLAMABAD: PTI on Tuesday prayed to the Supreme Court to dismiss with heavy costs the petition filed by former PML-N Senator Syed Zafar Ali Shah challenging a judgement of Islamabad High Court. “The judgement of the Islamabad High Court of April 14, 2015 challenged before the apex court is liable to be dismissed with heavy costs because it is inherently a frivolous petition,” Hamid Khan, counsel for the PTI prayed to the apex court, while filing a reply.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s foreign funding case was once again stalled on the request by the party lawyer after proceedings at the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) were adjourned for another three weeks.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Aleem Khan on Tuesday submitted a plea in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seeking valid record of transferred votes in NA-122 constituency of Lahore.
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has taken notice of reports of a deceased woman’s vote being cast in Jaranwala’s Union Council 49 during the first phase of the local government elections in Punjab.
ISLAMABAD: The ruling PML-N candidate Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Monday took oath as the Speaker National Assembly for the second time after the House voted him to the prestigious office by more than a two-thirds majority in the speaker’s election.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has submitted a petition to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking its direction to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to give it en masse access to the 8,300 server data as it was trying to formulate credible voter lists throughout the country for the intra-party elections.
ISLAMABAD: The country’s top citizen registration body is set to distance itself from all electoral matters after coming under intense criticism over its alleged inefficiency.
