KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to form a Rapid Deployment Force to handle trouble spots and also to launch an operation against history-sheeters, criminals, miscreants and absconders from Thursday to ensure peaceful conduct of local government polls.
Local Government
ISLAMABAD: After internal rifts on awarding tickets in the local bodies elections had cost PML-N over a 100 seats, its leadership is now reconsidering ways to better results for the second and third phases.
KARACHI: The voters for the local government polls in 15 districts of Sindh scheduled to be conducted on November 19 are in a quandary because of the irregularities being exposed in electoral lists as they are unable to locate their vote and polling stations.
ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of women voters were barred to exercise their fundamental right at one of the union councils in Chakwal District during the recently held first phase of local government (LG) elections in Punjab.
PESHAWAR: Finally, the much-awaited rules of business for different tiers of the local government (LG) system were approved and formal notification to this effect was issued on Tuesday wherein most of the powers have been given to the deputy commissioners and other officers of the bureaucracy.
LAHORE: Lack of a vigorous campaign unlike the one for NA-122, no criteria for selection of candidates, politics of confrontation and infighting are among the factors that led to the debacle of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the first phase of local body elections in the city on Oct 31, reveal background interviews with party leaders.
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Punjab organiser Chaudhary Muhammad Sarwar has said PTI’s performance in the local bodies’ elections was much less than expectations, and called for constituting a committee to know reasons behind the party’s not up-to-the-mark performance.
More transparency and strict enforcement of laws and procedures in the second phase of local government polls are necessary to avoid the shortcomings observed in the first phase of these elections in Sindh and Punjab, said the Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) on Tuesday.
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan would hold a meeting of provincial Chief Election Commissioners to review arrangements of second phase of Local Government Elections in Punjab, Sindh and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) on Wednesday.
LAHORE: The election of a dacoit on the PML-N ticket spotlights flaw in the scrutiny system both on the political and election commission side.
FAISALABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has directed the Faisalabad District Returning Officer (DRO), the DCO and the city police officer (CPO) to prepare a fact finding report on violations of its elections code of conduct by State Minister for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali, his father Chaudhary Sher Ali and MPA Mian Tahir Jameel. The officers have been asked to present the report in Islamabad on November 4.
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N landslide in the first phase of Local Bodies elections in the Punjab has almost stunned the main opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) whose Lahore organizer Shafqat Mahmood gracefully accepted the responsibility and stepped down.
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced that the local government elections that were postponed in 79 union councils of 12 districts in Punjab will be held on 19th November, ARY News reports.
ISLAMABAD: November 9 is less than a week away when the Election Commission of Pakistan is to allot symbols to the candidates of various political parties, however, the ECP seems far from fulfilling the formalities. So far it has failed to contact some 30 political parties registered with the commission.
KARACHI: Education secretary Fazalullah Pechuho announced on Monday the suspension of all the teachers who did not fulfill their election duties.
