Punjab Election Commission has not completed the constitutionally mandated responsibilities before the start of local government elections as there has been no check on candidates who have been implicated in FIRs or convicted by the courts, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Local Government
LAHORE: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Amin Wains says special security measures will be taken to provide security for peaceful conduct of local government (LG) elections just as police ensured peaceful by-election in NA-122 despite security threats.
ISLAMABAD: The top polling body has asked the apex court to immediately take up its appeal against the Lahore High Court decision to cancel new delimitations in Rawalpindi, fearing the verdict might delay local government elections in the country.
ISLAMABAD: A total of 55, 971 candidates will be contesting the local government elections in Sindh and Punjab scheduled to be held on Oct 31.
KARACHI: The Sindh government wants to delay the local bodies electoral process by a week and sought the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) nod in this regard through the top official of the provincial administration, said a key member of the provincial cabinet on Friday.
LAHORE: As many as 43 women and 102 non-Muslim candidates in Lahore are contesting local government polls on general seats, according to data released by the Election commission of Pakistan regarding the elections scheduled for October 31.
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday directed the provincial government not to notify till Oct 19 the revised delimitation of certain local government constituencies as proposed by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court restored the Rs341 billion farmers’ relief package announced by the prime minister on Sept 15, while accepting federation’s plea against its suspension by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
LAHORE/FAISALABAD: Chief Justice of Lahore High Court (LHC) Manzoor Ahmad Malik on Thursday has formed a full bench to hear pleas of candidates participating in Punjab local bodies elections.
Voters are done with the by-elections held in Punjab last week, but the leaderships of the PML-N and the PTI are busy analysing the tactics that won or lost them seats in the fierce contest to prepare for the bigger battle – the forthcoming local government elections.
LAHORE: Around 40,000 aspirants are in the run for various local government offices, from chairpersons and vice-chairpersons to general councilors to non-Muslim and women seats– in the first phase of local council elections scheduled to be held in 12 districts of Punjab on October 31.
BADIN: The candidates in the run for local government election as independents have complained against having been allotted ‘unsavoury, unpalatable and distasteful’ election symbols.
KARACHI: Nomination papers of 1,849 candidates for the upcoming local government elections in the city on the seats of chairman and vice chairman were accepted while 140 others were rejected in week-long scrutiny, it emerged on Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD: A division bench of the IHC on Tuesday observed it appears the ECP while issuing the order of suspending the Kissan Package did not consult the political parties in accordance with the law. The IHC bench comprising Justice Noorul Haq N Qureshi and Justice Aamir Farooq granted one-day time to the ECP directing it to come up with details before the court today (Wednesday).
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict in the Kissan Relief package case, where the government has challenged the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to suspend parts of the package, announced by the prime minister
