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Lawmakers can’t campaign in by-polls: SC
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside two orders of the Lahore High Court (LHC) that allowed members of the National…
NA-122 polls: RO rejects Aleem’s pleas for vote recount
LAHORE: The returning officer of NA-122 Zahid Iqbal on Tuesday dismissed the applications of PTI’s Abdul Aleem Khan, seeking…
PAT candidate challenges NA-122 by-poll result in election tribunal
Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) candidate Ishtiaq Chaudhry on Tuesday challenged result of NA-122 by-election in the election…
PTI seeks NA-122 voter lists from ECP
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is gathering the evidence of changes in voter lists of the Election Commission of of…
Participation of Overseas Pakistanis in elections: ECP initiated voting rehearsal in New York, Riyadh Dubai: Hamid
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in collaboration with Ministry of Foreign Affairs has initiated voting rehearsals in…
NA-122 weakest constituency for PML-N in Lahore
ISLAMABAD: Of 13 Lahore district seats of the National Assembly, NA-122 constituency was the weakest for the Pakistan Muslim…
Delaying tactics?: Sindh govt challenges election body’s power to create new electoral units
KARACHI: In all likelihood, the local bodies elections scheduled for October 31 in Sindh will see further delays. The provincial…
‘ECP seems to have wrongly suspended Kissan package’
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday observed that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seems to have…
PPP to decide support to Ayaz in speaker’s election: Khursheed
ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Tuesday said the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) will…
Will Imran now end his unannounced boycott of NA?
ISLAMABAD: After losing the all-important NA-122 to Nawaz Sharif’s party, will Imran Khan now end his unannounced boycott of the…
Nawaz asks Ahsan Iqbal to continue good work
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday intervened in an ongoing tug of war among his senior cabinet members, asking…
RO announces results of Lahore by-elections
LAHORE: The returning officer announced on Monday official results of NA-122 and PP-147 by-elections. Ayaz Sadiq of the PML-N…
NA-144: Rise of independent candidate Juj shows new trends in politics
OKARA: Before the NA-144 by-poll schedule was announced, Riazul Haq was not the choice of the PML-N. On October 11, when the…
PML-N, PTI in introspective mood after close contests
ISLAMABAD: The close contests in the by-election for NA-122 and PP-147 have prompted introspection in both major parties.
PML-N, PTI, PPP: the three losers of Lahore by-polls
ISLAMABAD: The Lahore voters have buried Imran Khan’s politics of rigging and allegations but at the same time made the ruling…
Ayaz to get back NA speaker slot on 26th
ISLAMABAD: Ayaz Sadiq has to wait another couple of weeks to get back his old job of Speaker National Assembly for which Prime…
ECP rejects vote shift claims of PTI
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission yesterday rejected the allegations about vote shuffle in Punjab by-elections, as PTI said it…
All PPP candidates lose security deposits
LAHORE: Once the most popular party of Pakistan, Pakistan People’s Party paid heavy price for their leadership policies by…
PPP keeping ‘friends close’ for LG polls
RAWALPINDI: Following a disastrous showing in the NA-122 by-election in Lahore, it appears that the PPP won’t be taking any…
Constitution, ECP lost in by-polls: Kaira
LALAMUSA: Pakistan People’s Party information secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that though PM Nawaz Sharif and PTI chief…
PTI to submit proof of ‘irregularities’ in voters’ lists
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab organiser Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar said on Monday his party would review NA-122…
Maryam Nawaz finds fault with PP-147 candidate
LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam finds fault with the PML-N candidate that led to defeat of the party in…
Barring Imran from poll campaigning not legal, PTI tells SC
ISLAMABAD: A day after the PTI lost a close by-election in NA-122 (Lahore), the party told the Supreme Court that restraining its…
PPP to be in full form in general elections: Khursheed
SUKKUR: Dispelling the impression about the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) having been inactive even in an environment of high…
Parties outnumber election symbols
ISLAMABAD: The rapidly growing number of political parties registered with the premier poll supervisory body has once again…
Ayaz Sadiq retakes NA-122, but PML-N loses provincial assembly seat to PTI
LAHORE: In a tension-filled close contest, PML-N’s Sardar Ayaz Sadiq retained his NA-122 Lahore seat by defeating PTI’s Abdul…
ECP lauds Army, LEAs for peaceful by-elections
Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad on Sunday expressed satisfaction on the peaceful…
ECP receives 35 ‘minor complaints’ from Lahore
ISLAMABAD: The Elec¬tion Commission of Pakistan (ECP) received as many as 35 complaints of minor abnormalities from the three…
NA-122 by-polls: lessons for PML-N and PTI to learn
ISLAMABAD: The close contest between the PTI and PML-N in Sunday’s by-polls has nothing to rejoice for any of them but it brings…
Ayaz Sadiq set to be re-elected NA speaker
ISLAMABAD: Sardar Ayaz Sadiq will continue to be Speaker of the National Assembly and the strategy drawn up by the ruling…
PM’s media conference not given clean chit: ECP
ISLAMABAD: The Secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Babar Yaqoob, on Sunday said no clean chit had been given…
ECP defers LG elections in several UCs of Rawalpindi
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) deferred on Sunday the election process in different union councils (UCs) of…
Loss by ‘small margin’ is not a defeat, says Sarwar
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Punjab organiser Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar said on Sunday night that the defeat of his party’s…
Disgruntled members to take PTI to US courts
ISLAMABAD: Some members of the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have decided to take the party to court in the US against…
PM didn’t violate election code of conduct: ECP
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Saturday ruled that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif did not violate the election…
Court’s decision after NA speaker’s ruling: CJ
ISLAMABAD: The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, on Friday observed that if the Speaker National…
EC asks Punjab, Sindh to ensure neutrality
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan’s Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad has written a letter to the chief…
In response to your abuses,I pray God may guide you: Nawaz
BHIKKI (Sheikhupura): Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday said that politicians must give up the politics of abuses and…
Imran’s criticism of ECP member unfounded
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and its chief Imran Khan continue a campaign against members of the Election Commission…
Sidelined PTI fund collector denies Jewish, Indian funding to PTI
ISLAMABAD: The person who used to collect donations on behalf of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the United States has trashed…