PML-N leader and State Minister for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali Tuesday apologised to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for violating the code of conduct in the first phase of local government elections in Punjab.
Local Government
ISLAMABAD: Former Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza on Monday said that she would bring documented proofs of pre poll rigging in November 19 Local Government elections in district Badin.
KARACHI: Three political parties – the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz – are having a tough time at the hands of their dissenter leaders, who are contesting independently against their parties’ candidates in the upcoming local government elections.
LAHORE: Justice Farrukh Irfan Khan of the Lahore High Court Tuesday ordered Election Commission of Pakistan to hold re-counting in UC-39 of Lahore within three days and directed a district and sessions judge to monitor the process.
The decision has been taken in order to ensure that elections of the union councils and wards in ICT are conducted fairly, said spokesman of the ECP on Tuesday.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday summoned to Rai Mujtaba Kharal, former lawmaker over manhandling of Presiding Officer in Okara.
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party swept the first phase of the local government election in eight districts of Sindh by winning about 70 per cent of the over 3,500 seats, it emerged on Tuesday.
HYDERABAD: The Secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan, Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad, has said all district returning officers (DROs) and police authorities want deployment of army in the second phase of local government elections in Sindh.
KARACHI: The meeting scheduled between opposition parties of the province and secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Baber Yaqoob, could not be held on Monday owing to the latter’s prior engagements.
KARACHI: As many as 2,500 polling stations were declared as highly sensitive in Sindh for the second and third phases of the local government (LG) elections.
ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has decided not to go ahead with seat adjustment plan with the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) in the upcoming local government (LG) elections in the federal capital.
TOBA TEK SINGH: PTI Punjab organiser Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Monday said the party discipline violation regarding the local government polls would not be tolerated.
ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has said that the next phase of the local bodies elections should be held under the supervision of the army.
ISLAMABAD: Basking in the glory of its clean sweep in the local government polls’ first phase in 12 districts of Punjab, the ruling party has directed its Punjab leadership to carefully select names for the slots of mayors and district councils’ chairpersons.:
HYDERABAD: The Arbab group of Tharparkar with the support of several mainstream political parties will stage a continuous sit-in in the district from November 10.
