ISLAMABAD: The process of filing of nomination papers for local bodies’ (LB) elections in Sindh and Punjab began on Monday which will continue till Thursday. Scrutiny would be held from September 12 to 17 and last date for filing of appeals against the acceptance or rejection of the nomination papers is September 22.
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ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission on Monday accepted the government’s stance on matters pertaining to political party tickets.
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday took a U-turn after agreeing to work out a seat adjustment deal with the opposition parties for the upcoming local government elections in Punjab.
LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that there would be no reconciliation now and the party would pose severe resistance to the opponent parties in its future line of action and PPP would inflict heavy defeat on Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in the upcoming local government (LG) elections.
MULTAN: The APML will take part in the local government elections in the province and party chief Pervez Musharraf has convened a meeting in Karachi to finalise the strategy.
KARACHI: The three phases for conducting local bodies polls beginning from October 31 have been decided on the basis of administrative divisions, the Sindh Chief Secretary Muhammad Siddique Memon was informed at a meeting on Monday.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has summoned meeting of heads of all major political parties on September 10 to ensure fair and transparent Local Government elections in the Punjab, Sindh and Islamabad.
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Monday challenged the verdict by an election tribunal on NA-122 which de-seated him as a Speaker of the National Assembly and MNA.
ISLAMABAD: A senate panel has requested the government to drop a proposal against providing voting rights to overseas Pakistanis.
LAHORE: Justice Ijazul Ahsan of Lahore High Court on Thursday issued notice to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on a petition challenging cancellation of three election tribunal members’ contracts.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday suspended two of its officers for negligence in pursuing a commission’s decision on post-election tribunals.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and federal and Punjab ministers are allowed to fully campaign for their candidates in the forthcoming high-profile by-elections as the prohibition was dispensed with by the Lahore High Court (LHC) some time back.
ISLAMABAD: With the fate of around two dozen election petitions hanging in the balance, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has pinpointed a “delayed communication” with the provincial high courts as the reason why serving judges will be unable to take up pending petitions.
LAHORE: Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) Programme Manager Syed Kausar Abbas said that provision of Rs 7.5 billion in total and 25 million to each constituency by the Punjab government, through MPAs for development projects, is pre-poll rigging.While talking to media on Tuesday, he said that the allocation of funds by the Punjab government is pre poll rigging.
ISLAMABAD: All the four members of the Election Commission of Pakistan were ready to resign if the Chief Election Commissioner asked them to, but the CEC not only reposed confidence in them he also came down hard on those who are criticising them.
