ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on Monday rejected a reference filed by the PTI against members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for what it alleged were irregularities in the 2013 general elections.
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ISLAMABAD: The four members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), all retired high court judges, who have been unkindly bashed by some political parties since long, stood vindicated after the rejection of a reference by the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC).
PESHAWAR: The Election Commission of Pakistan has disqualified Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Mansehra district minority member Saeed Luqman Shair Gil for violating the party discipline during the elections for district and tehsil Nazims on August 30, 2015.
ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday notified the composition of the Metropolitan Corporation (MC) which will be elected to run the capital’s affairs following the November 30 local government elections in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT).
LAHORE: As the October 31 local bodies elections in Punjab and Sindh have almost approached, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), probably as an ‘after-thought,’ has asked the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) at the eleventh hour to ensure that no media house is allowed to broadcast the ‘unofficial and unconfirmed’ results of the upcoming ballot exercise, a move that is seemingly quite surprising because in today’s modern world gifted with all sorts of mass communication modes, even where there is a ban on declaring these unofficial results, quite authentic numbers keep leaking out once the last vote is cast.
LAHORE: Almost three quarters of the total polling stations can face violent clashes on the vote day for the local bodies’ elections in Punjab, security agencies’ sources told The Nation yesterday.
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday barred election commission from issuing notification of Khwaja Ahmad Hassaan as unopposed returned candidate of chairman from UC 107.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has deferred local government elections in six each union councils of Chakwal and Attock districts, two union councils of Gujrat and ward numbers six and five of union council-41 and 47 Lodhran in pursuance of the orders of the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi and Multan benches.
LARKANA: Sindh United Party (SUP) chairman Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah feared on Wednesday that the way the candidates of anti-PPP parties were being kidnapped, harassed and forced to change loyalties and step down, the excesses might repeat the 1977-like situation when Maulana Jan Muhammed Abbasi had been abducted and elections declared null and void.
ISLAMABAD: The administrative machinery, police and law enforcement agencies face a great challenge to manage better the limited local council elections in 20 districts of Punjab and Sindh and provide a peaceful environment to voters. The local polls have been spread over three phases mainly to enable the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), police, law enforcers and administrative machinery to make the exercise chaos-free.
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has on Tuesday declared the biometric system as unreliable and said that the elections under biometric system are impracticable, reported Dunya News.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Tuesday summoned the PML-N lawmaker Siddique Baloch today (Wednesday) who had challenged the verdict of an election tribunal, disqualifying him for lifetime.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Monday adjourned hearing till today (Tuesday) into NA-154 Lodhran by election case. A three-member bench, headed by Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, heard the appeal of Siddique Baloch, challenging the verdict of Election Tribunal Multan that disqualified him for lifetime.
ISLAMABAD: After realizing that not a single vote registered in NA-122 in the electoral rolls of 2013 general elections has been transferred to some other constituency without proper application of the voter, the PTI is now confusing the votes transferred outside or in NA-122 and other constituencies before 2013 elections during door-to-door verification of voters.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ruling on the high-profile NA-154 constituency of Lodhran, where the October 11 by-election could not be held because of the stay order granted to the disqualified Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate, will likely come sooner rather than later, given the tone and tenor of the ongoing judicial proceedings.
