ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government on Saturday sought Pakistan Army deployment once again during upcoming second phase of local bodies (LB) elections due on November 19 in the Punjab.
Local Government
The Lahore High Court (LHC) Saturday accepted a plea against results of as many as 274 Union Councils (UC) in the first phase of local body (LB) polls held on October 31. Advocate Ishtiaq Chaudhry filed the plea on behalf of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT).
MANSEHRA: The JUI-F has joined hands with the PPP to play an important role in the formation of the future government after quitting the PML-N-led district government.
Polling for the local government (LG) elections in four districts of Sindh and for 85 union council seats in Punjab, which was suspended due to clashes between rival groups and misprinting of ballot papers during the first phase on October 31, will be held on November 14.
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement said on Friday that 26 of its candidates for the seats of general councillors In Karachi as well as two for the slots of the chairperson and the vice chairperson had already been elected unopposed, writes Shamim Bano.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed high court’s judgement that voided delimitation of constituencies by Election Commission of Pakistan in Rawalpindi.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced over 10 hour poll timing for local bodies (LB) elections in the capital scheduled for on November 30.
KARACHI: Rangers personnel will be deployed at sensitive polling stations during the second phase of local government elections in Shaheed Benazirabad, Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas divisions, scheduled for November 19, said Sindh information minister Nisar Khuhro on Thursday.
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday declared returning officers (RO) responsible for mismanagement in first phase of local body (LB) polls in Punjab and Sindh.
None of about half a dozen Sindhi nationalist parties and groups who took part in the first phase of the local government elections recently held in Sukkur and Larkana divisions succeeded in getting more than two candidates elected.
ISLAMABAD: The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan, on Wednesday said action would be taken against those involved in irregularities in the local government (LG) elections.
LAHORE: The second phase of local government elections will be held in 12 districts of the province on November 19.
ISLAMABAD: Election authorities on Wednesday vowed to correct shortcomings of the first phase of local government (LG) elections in Punjab and Sindh, and decided to enhance security for the next phases of the polls.
RAWALPINDI: The time has come for the arch rivals PTI and the PML-N to disclose their well-guarded secret – the names of their party-ticket holders in the local government elections on December 5.
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) have reached an agreement on seat adjustment in connection with the upcoming Local Government elections in Karachi.
