DAGGAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) forward bloc nominee Syed Salar Jehan was elected as tehsil nazim in Gagra by defeating the party nominated candidate here on Sunday.
Local Government
LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Punjab president Manzoor Wattoo said that returning officers should be appointed from the judiciary for the local government elections. Addressing a press conference, Wattoo said if the government appointed civil servants to oversee the local government elections, the results would be suspect.
ISLAMABAD: The mainstream political parties and the top poll supervisory body have agreed to a grossly unrealistic maximum limit of campaign expenditures for the upcoming local government elections.
LAHORE: The Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad presided over a meeting on Friday regarding the preparations of Bye-Election & Local Government Elections in Punjab-2015 at Provincial Election Commissioner Office, Punjab.
LAHORE: Rangers are likely to be deployed in Punjab to look after overall security arrangements for the upcoming local bodies’ polls, The Nation has learnt.
By-election in National Assembly constituency NA-144 Okara will be held on 11th of next month.
ISLAMABAD: The top court has declared that any attempt by a provincial government to make the local governments powerless will not be countenanced by the court, which will strike down such legislations.
PESHAWAR: CM Pervez Khattak on Thursday said that heads of the district and tehsil governments would be removed from offices in case of failure to approve budgets from their respective councils.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is set to re-issue the schedule for local government elections in Punjab and Sindh to incorporate in their code of conduct a clause barring public office-holders and other members of the national and provincial assemblies from campaigning for candidates.
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik on Wednesday declined the request of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for appointment of district and sessions judges and additional district and sessions judges as election tribunals for disposal of election petitions.
ISLAMABAD: In a rare move, the Election Commission of Pakistan on Wednesday decided to take an undertaking from the (federal) Planning and Development Secretary and chairman (P&D) Punjab, and Sindh’s additional chief secretary development that funds would not be released till local bodies polls are over in the two provinces.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has decided to enter Local Bodies Elections in Sindh without political alliances. Chairing the meeting of Sindh chapter at Prime Minister’s House yesterday the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif discussed the party’s standing in the province directing provincial leadership to enhance contact with masses and highlight the party’s performance of the past two years.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Tuesday extended date for issuance of party tickets/certificates for participation in the first phase of upcoming local government polls in the Punjab and Sindh.
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed the federal and provincial law officers, Election Commission of Pakistan, revenue department and others to file comments on petitions filed by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and others against delimitation of union councils and committees in different districts of the province.
LAHORE: As many as seven opposition parties have decided to form a grand political alliance against the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in the Punjab ahead of the local bodies elections.
