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LHC allows MPs to campaign for polls
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday suspended the notification issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)…
PTI to file references in SJC against ECP members
ISLAMABAD: After mounting maximum political pressure for seeking resignations of four members of Election Commission of Pakistan…
Several parties suspect foul play in run-up to LB polls
SUKKUR: PML-F, PML-N, JUI-F and PTI have been suspecting pre-poll rigging in the local bodies’ elections, and in this regard…
Wattoo demands judicial officers as ROs
LAHORE: Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo, President Punjab PPP, has demanded the deployment of judicial officers as Returning Officers…
NA-122, NA-154 by-polls to be held on Oct 11
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced the schedule for the by-elections in NA-122, Lahore, and…
View from the courtroom : ECP verdict helps in breaching tradition of disenfranchisement of women in Dir
The women voters of district Upper Dir finally deviated from the decades old tradition of their disenfranchisement during the…
Will Imran’s defiance of ECP brew a storm?
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is confronted with a great challenge to stop Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)…
ECP in no mood to bend rules for PTI chief
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has barred party heads from conducting election campaign aimed at providing…
ECP decides to implement code of conduct
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to implement strictly the code of conduct during the local…
Tehsil Nazim, Naib Nazim elections for Wari Tehsil postponed
DIR: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has postponed the election for Wari Tehsil Nazim and Naib Nazim after the…
Murky waters: Bending one law to uphold another
HYDERABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has found a way to implement the Sindh High Court’s order regarding the…
772 candidates file nominations for LG polls in Mirpurkhas
MIRPURKHAS: As many as 772 candidates have filed nomination papers for different seats of local government elections in the…
PML-N says Imran’s plans clear violation of ECP rules
ISLAMABAD: The ruling PML-N has described as clear violation of Election Commission rules the decision of PTI Chairman Imran Khan…
PTI to challenge ban on taking part in poll campaigning
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan said on Sunday his party would challenge in court decision by the Election…
Can PPP revive its flagging fortunes?
ISLAMABAD: Beset with charges of corruption and flagrant mismanagement in Sindh, the Pakistan Peoples Party, which had coalition…
Election code of conduct: Media told to avoid spreading false reports
LAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked the media to refrain from disseminating misinformation about a…
Use phone cameras to expose vote fraud, Imran tell workers
LAHORE: Alleging election commission, police and administration of favouring ruling PML-N, PTI chief Imran Khan has directed his…
ECP facilitated gerrymandering of constituencies, SHC told
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court observed on Saturday that functionaries of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) did not adhere…
‘Defected PTI councillors to go home’
DAGGAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) provincial organiser Fazal Mohammad Khan said on Friday that 11 members of the District…
PPP warns of agitation against meddling in Sindh govt affairs
KARACHI: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has threatened to launch a robust public agitation if the federal government continues…
Imran to take part in by-polls campaign
LAHORE: Defying the Election Commission’s rules for campaigning, PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday announced to take part in…
ECP appoints heads of Lahore, Multan’s election tribunals
ISLAMABAD: The Election Comm¬ission of Pakistan (ECP) appointed on Friday heads of election tribunals for Lahore and Multan to…
SHC cancels delimitation of certain LG constituencies across province
KARACHI: Delimitation of certain constituencies made by the provincial government for the upcoming local government elections…
Re-election campaign in Lahore, Lodhran to be lifeless
ISLAMABAD: The campaign for October 11 high-profile by-elections in Lahore and Lodhran will remain localised, lacklustre, as all…
ECP urges SC to postpone LG polls in capital
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has filed a petition in Supreme Court seeking minor changes in the schedule of…
Fata should be part of KP: Imran
NOWSHERA: Federally Administered Tribal Areas should be made part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran…
Post-mortem of PPP in Dubai
ISLAMABAD: When the top leadership of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) meets in Dubai on Saturday and Sunday it will not merely…
Final candidates for NA-122, NA-154, PP-147 announced
LAHORE: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday issued the final list of candidates for by-elections in Lahore two…
SC combines petitions on MQM, PTI resignations
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered to combine the petitions pertaining to the resignations of the Pakistan…
Women voters finally make it to the polling stations in Dir
UPPER DIR: The by-poll on a provincial assembly seat in Upper Dir proved historic as it brought an end to the dominance of…
Christian party to boycott LG elections
LAHORE: Christian Democratic Party (CDP) Chairman Ben-Hur Yousaf Gillhas issued a statement to categorically boycott electoral…
Commission rejected objections raised by a section of society on package in wake of Local Government Elections
The Election Commission of Pakistan has given a clean-chit to the relief package for farmers announced by Prime Minister Nawaz…
‘No one can remove PM till parliament, democracy exist’
LAHORE: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah said on Wednesday that as long as parliament and…
Uneasy silence over resignations of MQM MPs
ISLAMABAD: No party is pushed for acceptance of resignations tendered by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) lawmakers as any…
PPP KP president claims credit for Dir poll victory
PESHAWAR: Claiming credit for the Pakistan Peoples Party candidate Sahibzada Sanaullah’s victory in the by-elections in PK-93,…
Sadiq, Aleem’s nomination papers accepted
LAHORE: The returning officer for by-poll in NA-122 accepted on Tuesday nomination papers of Ayaz Sadiq of the PML-N and Abdul…
PPP's Sanaullah wins Upper Dir by-poll
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party candidate, Sanaullah, won the by-election for provincial assembly seat PK-93, Wari, Upper…
Reconciliation returns?
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday asked his ministers to go soft on the Pakistan People’s Party and the Muttahida…
PK-93 by-polls: Women queue up to rewrite Dir’s electoral history
UPPER DIR: Women in Upper Dir took a giant leap on Tuesday to reclaim their right to vote as they queued up outside polling…
ECP rejects objections against Ayaz Sadiq’s nomination
ISLAMABAD: The election commission on Tuesday rejected objections against the nomination of former speaker National Assembly…