ISLAMABAD: While challenging an order of the delimitation authority, The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has urged the Islamabad High Court to issue directions for conducting fresh delimitation of union councils in the capital.
Election
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan is expected to issue a notification today (Thursday) regarding suspension of membership of more than five hundred parliamentarians who have failed to submit details of their assets.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has exercised its legal right by seeking vote recount in the National Assembly constituency NA-122 Lahore where by-election was held on Sunday.
ISLAMABAD: Ayaz Sadiq awaits another contest but this time he will not walk a tightrope as almost all political parties including nationalist forces are set to support him as candidate for National Assembly Speaker.
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan has written a letter to the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif expressing his profound gratitude over the peaceful conclusion of the tensely-contested by-elections in Punjab on October 11.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside two orders of the Lahore High Court (LHC) that allowed members of the National Assembly and provincial assemblies to campaign in their constituencies for the upcoming local government elections.
LAHORE: The returning officer of NA-122 Zahid Iqbal on Tuesday dismissed the applications of PTI’s Abdul Aleem Khan, seeking recount of votes polled in the October 11 by-polls.
Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) candidate Ishtiaq Chaudhry on Tuesday challenged result of NA-122 by-election in the election tribunal alleging that there had been massive irregularities in the re-election.
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is gathering the evidence of changes in voter lists of the Election Commission of of Pakistan (ECP) for NA-122 by-polls, which the party lost to the ruling PML-N candidate on Sunday.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in collaboration with Ministry of Foreign Affairs has initiated voting rehearsals in New York, Riyadh and Dubai, to ensure overseas Pakistanis’ participation in elections. This was stated by Zahid Hamid, convener of sub-committee of the Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms while talking to media after a meeting of the panel held here on
ISLAMABAD: Of 13 Lahore district seats of the National Assembly, NA-122 constituency was the weakest for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in terms of the massive lead that its candidates had scored over their rivals in the fight for twelve seats in the 2013 general elections.
LAHORE: The returning officer announced on Monday official results of NA-122 and PP-147 by-elections. Ayaz Sadiq of the PML-N retained his National Assembly seat by securing 74,525 votes against his main rival Abdul Aleem Khan of the PTI, who obtained 72,084 votes. PPP candidate Barrister Amir Hassan could obtain only 819 votes.
OKARA: Before the NA-144 by-poll schedule was announced, Riazul Haq was not the choice of the PML-N. On October 11, when the young scion of the Nemat family of Okara city posted a very convincing victory as an independent candidate against PML-N’s Ali Arif Chaudhry, now Riazul Haq, alias Juj, has been contacted by both the PML-N and the PTI to join their parties.
ISLAMABAD: The close contests in the by-election for NA-122 and PP-147 have prompted introspection in both major parties.
ISLAMABAD: The Lahore voters have buried Imran Khan’s politics of rigging and allegations but at the same time made the ruling PML-N seriously think what has gone wrong with it that despite the massive development work in Lahore, it barely secured the NA-122 but lost the PP-147.
