PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) emerged as the largest political party in the local government (LG) elections by clinching nine positions of district Nazims as the process was completed in 23 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Sunday.
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PESHAWAR: Most of the newly elected district and town/tehsil nazims in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are young and newcomers in the mainstream politics.
PESHAWAR: Two PPP and eight JUI-F councillors voted against their respective parties decision in Chitral district, sources said on Sunday.
LAHORE: Four Islamist parties which were part of the defunct Muttahida Majlis Amal (MMA) have agreed to contest the coming local bodies elections in Punjab and Sindh on a joint platform.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday announced the schedule for the first-ever party-based local bodies election in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), fixing November 30 for the electoral exercise.
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday maintained a decision of the Election Commission of Pakistan on the disqualification of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s tehsil councilor-elect.
The Election Commission of Pakistan has started the process of delimitation of Union Councils and Wards in Islamabad Capital Territory.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued instructions to all returning officers (ROs) appointed for the local government polls in Punjab and Sindh to refrain from asking candidates ‘irrelevant’ and ‘intrusive’ questions during scrutiny of their nomination papers.
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Punjab chapter may write a letter to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to express its reservations against the “manner of holding the upcoming local elections.”
KARACHI: The Sindh government imposed a ban on fresh appointments on Thursday. According to a notification, the ban will be effective in all administrative departments which fall under the Sindh government’s domain.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) faced a split opinion in its high level consultative session on the question of going for fresh polls or otherwise to the two National Assembly constituencies where its MPs have been unseated by election tribunals and took a majority decision in favour of competing for these seats.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will announce the schedule for the local bodies elections in the federal capital after a span of 23 years today (Friday). The last local bodies polls in the federal capital were held in 1992.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday formally announced the schedule for the first phase of three-phased local government elections in Punjab and Sindh, according to which polling will be held on October 31. The announcement, through a notification, clears the way for start of an already-delayed electoral process in Pakistan’s two most populous provinces.
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday has declared the verdict of district election commission regarding delimitation as null and void, Dunya News reported.
LAHORE: Justice Shahid Karim of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday requested Chief Justice to constitute a larger bench to hear petitions against seats reserved for women, youth, non-Muslims and others in the upcoming local government (LG) elections by amending the law.The Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) and others challenged the amendments made through the Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2015 (PLGO).
