Islamabad: Low voter turnout is feared in Islamabad’s urban areas during the local government elections slated for today (Monday) as it’s only a half-day public holiday in what is popularly known as the city of government employees.
Local Government
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad has a union council (UC) where nearly 56 per cent of registered voters and a majority of the candidates for local government are not local residents.
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday directed Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to file comments on a petition filed by Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) challenging delimitations of Korangi district for upcoming local government elections.
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Mushtaq Ahmed said that the capital administration is all set to ensure free, fair and transparent local government (LG) elections in the federal capital.
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday decided to deploy armed forces personnel and Rangers for the safety and security and peaceful conduct of local government (LG) elections in the capital on November 30.
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad has a union council (UC) where nearly 56 per cent of registered voters and a majority of the candidates for local government are not local residents.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday issued a schedule for the conduct of delimitation of 81 local bodies (LB) constituencies in Sindh’s eight districts as per the order of the Sindh High Court passed on November 17.
LAHORE: Lahore High Court on Monday restrained the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) from notifying the result of election for Nankana Sahib’s Union Council No51 chairman on a plea alleging that women voters in a ward of the UC were forcibly stopped from casting ballots.
Quite a few features in the local government system in Karachi are different from the one in place in the rest of Sindh. A major part of the city is urban, except a few sprawling but sparsely populated rural clusters that retain fast diminishing rural colour.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will begin transmitting result forms directly from 200 polling stations via smartphones to its secretariat during the November 30 local government (LG) polls in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT).
ISLAMABAD: The stage is set for the first-ever local bodies (LB) election in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) on November 30 with 2,396 candidates in the arena for 650 seats of 50 union councils.
LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said that his responsibilities had increased after the people posed confidence in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz during the local bodies (LB) elections.
ISLAMABAD: Around 26 per cent of union councils in the federal capital do not have a single seat for non-Muslims while six candidates are to be elected unopposed on the seats reserved for the minority communities.
ISLAMABAD: Postponement of local council elections in the six Karachi districts will send out a highly negative message that the most important mega city was the only troubled, unmanageable and uncontrollable spot in Pakistan.
PESHAWAR: The Local Council Association (LCA) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has rejected the local government rules of business and warned of launching a province-wide movement if the government failed to accept their demands by December 20.
