LAHORE: Local Government elections in Punjab were nothing more than a Tamasha (spectacle) in which the ruling party carried out large-scale rigging like it did in the by-election of NA-122, said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Punjab President Ejaz Chauhdry on Monday.
Local Government
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party leaders MNA Faryal Talpur, Home Minister Suhail Anwar Siyal and several other lawmakers led several rallies taken out in various areas of Larkana district on Monday to celebrate the party’s victory in the first phase of the local government election amid continued protest by the opposition parties over what they described as massive rigging.
FAISALABAD: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan has said that the PML-N has constituted a board to interview the intending candidates for the slots of district councils chairmen and municipal corporations mayors across the province.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is trying to reach out to 30 political parties to fulfil the formalities for holding the local government elections in Islamabad on November 30.
LAHORE: As the unofficial results keep pouring in from districts in Punjab and Sindh, it is quite clear at the moment that the ruling parties in the two provinces are comfortably placed to elect their mayors and chairmen.
DUBAI: The just concluded local bodies (LB) polls have confirmed one deeply entrenched fact —- status quo —- with all parties in power in the provinces retaining their hold.
LAHORE: The Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) on Sunday observed that the first phase of the local bodies (LB) elections was better than that in the past. However, irregularities committed in the May 11 2013 general polls were repeated in the polls.
LAHORE: The local councils in Punjab will merely act as constrained agencies of the provincial government, having limited revenue collection powers and offering only municipal services to people.
ISLAMABAD: Like Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) local bodies (LB) elections and all the previous by-elections on National Assembly and provincial assembly seats, the results of the first phase of LB polls in Punjab and Sindh have vindicated the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) against different allegations hurled by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) regarding rigging in 2013 general elections.
ISLAMABAD: Deafening propaganda, claims, daydreaming and barrage of allegations apart, the seats won by the major and diminutive political parties in Punjab and Sindh aptly represent their true electoral strength in the partial local elections, which were as fair, free and transparent as were the 2013 parliamentary polls.
LAHORE: Former president Asif Ali Zardari has felicitated all those who have won in the first phase of local government (LG) elections in Sindh and Punjab, calling it an important and indispensable step forward towards empowering people at grass-roots level.
OKARA: A losing PML-N candidate for Ward No-42, Imran Younus, along with his hundreds of supporters staged a demonstration against rigging.
ISLAMABAD: Is the route of PTI in the Punjab and vanishing from Sindh scene the first sign of the party’s downfall?
LAHORE: A high-level meeting with Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in the chair on Sunday decided to impose a ban on taking out post-victory rallies by candidates during the second phase of the local government election.
ISLAMABAD: Political parties are in the process of awarding tickets to their nominated candidates for the first ever local body elections in Islamabad, scheduled on November 30.
