ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), which is being persistently bashed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for its ‘partisan’ role, has accepted its another demand by temporarily suspending the implementation of the Rs341 billion package for farmers that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif unfolded a few days back.
Local Government
KARACHI: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will nominate its candidates from all union councils of the city in the upcoming local government elections, announced its Karachi president Ali Akbar Zaidi on Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday denounced the farmers’ relief package announced by the prime minister as a violation of ECP code of conduct and barred the government from implementing it, Dawn News reported.
ISLAMABAD: To be consistent with evolving laws, and to amend for its mistakes, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has withdrawn the schedule for local government elections in the federal capital, it announced on August 28.
KARACHI: The provincial election commission modified the delimitations of union councils in some districts of Sindh on Tuesday, in line with the Sindh High Court’s latest orders regarding the boundaries of these administrative units.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Com¬mis¬sion of Pakistan which had taken notice of the Rs 341 billion Kissan package annou¬n¬ced by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ahead of local government elections reserved on Tuesday its judgment on the issue.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is likely to scrap Nawaz Sharif’s Rs341 billion Kissan package on Tuesday. The Kissan package was announced ahead of the local government elections in the province.
GUJRANWALA: A milk seller in Punjab’s Gujranwala district was declared ineligible to contest local body polls as he was selling milk on a price higher than that approved by the provincial government.
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday directed petitioners who had challenged the delimitation process to specifically name areas included in more than one constituency after examining the maps of their respective districts.
ISLAMABAD: Odds for holding the first ever local government (LG) elections in the capital just increased after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) displayed a draft for the delimitation of union councils on Monday.
KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Monday issued the election schedule for the third phase of local government election to be held on Dec 3 in Karachi division.
SUKKUR: The All Parties Action Committee (APAC) — the recently formed nine-party electoral alliance — took out a rally in Sukkur on Monday and held a sit-in for several hours outside the regional election commissioner’s (REC’s) office against appointment of “pro-PPP” returning officers in the district.
LAHORE: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has on Sunday released the final voter lists of 12 districts of Punjab according to which the total number of registered voters in these districts is 14,685,822, out of which 8,282,729 voters are male while the remaining 643,093 are female, reported Dunya News.
LAHORE: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) local body elections’ candidates have already started putting up the plates of their names on the development projects in Punjab, addressing themselves as chairmen and vice chairmen though the elections have not even been held as yet, reported Dunya News.
ISLAMABAD: Although no formal multiparty alliances have been knocked together to jointly contest the forthcoming local council elections, there have been ‘adjustments’ between some strange political bedfellows at the local level in certain areas.
