PESHAWAR: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday announced schedule to fill reserved seats in Tehsil, Town and district councils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which were secured by different political parties but remained vacant due to exhaustion of priority lists of their respective candidates.
Local Government
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) today gave January 02, 2016 deadline to the successful independent candidates of second phase of Sindh’s local body polls for their inclusion in any political party.
PESHAWAR: Newly elected Nazims and councilors of village and neighbourhoods on Monday staged a protest demonstration against what they called the non-transfer of powers to grass-root level outside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) assembly.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has decided to hold Local Government Elections on reserved seats for Women, Peasants/Workers, Technocrat, Youth and Non-Muslims in Metropolitan Corporation of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) on January 18.
KARACHI: With the blessing of their high command, the local leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) made a deal with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement enabling the latter to grab the top slot in Karachi’s South district, it emerged on Sunday.
KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) postponed on Wednesday the elections on reserved seats for local government setup in Sindh, the provincial ECP office confirmed on Thursday.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Election Commission to hold local government elections in more than eighty Union Councils (UCs) in eleven districts of Sindh. A two-member bench headed by Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed heard ECP’s appeal against the decision by the Sindh High Court.
ISLAMABAD: Some 650 newly-elected chairmen and members of 50 union councils (UCs) of Islamabad yesterday sworn in with pledge that they will strengthen democracy through good governance.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Election Commission to hold local government elections in more than eighty union councils (UCs) in eleven districts of Sindh, Dunya News reported.
LAHORE: A little less than two third of the respondents (64 per cent) in a survey conducted by The Express Tribune report changes in the boundary of their constituencies following de-limitations done by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) ahead of the election held on October 31.
ISLAMABAD: Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Babar Yaqoob has on Monday admitted the irregularities in the local body (LB) elections. He said that the ECP had to follow the deadline given by Supreme Court (SC), otherwise a schedule given by ECP would have helped avoid the errors, reported Dunya News.
LAHORE: Public opinion on party-based elections is split almost evenly between those who prefer party-based elections (49.5 per cent) and those who want non-party based elections (50.5 per cent) to the metropolitan corporation.
The ruling Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz (PML-N) is in a catch-22 situation over the post of Mayor for the federal capital. Despite the lapse of over half a month since the local bodies elections were held in the city, the party is yet to finalise a name for the coveted post, Pakistan Today has reliably learnt.
LODHRAN / BAHAWALPUR: Independents and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf candidates for chairman and vice chairman in UC-17, Bahawalpur, staged a demonstration at Shahdra Chowk on Tuesday against alleged rigging in the local government elections. The candidates addressed a press conference in this regard as well.
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday nominated senior party leader Waseem Akhtar for the coveted slot of Mayor Karachi and Arshad Vohra for Deputy Mayor.
