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N to enter Sindh LB polls without allie
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has decided to enter Local Bodies Elections in Sindh without political alliances.…
Zardari’s outburst displeases PM
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has expressed unhappiness over former president and PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s…
PPP not to quit assemblies, destabilise system: Kaira
DUBAI: PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira on Tuesday said his party will neither tender resignations from the assemblies nor will it…
Process of LB polls in Sindh, Punjab starts
ISLAMABAD: The process of filing of nomination papers for local bodies’ (LB) elections in Sindh and Punjab began on Monday which…
Election Commission accepts govt's stance on matter of party tickets
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission on Monday accepted the government’s stance on matters pertaining to political party tickets.
PTI walks out of seven-party alliance in Punjab
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday took a U-turn after agreeing to work out a seat adjustment deal with the…
PML-N to be defeated in LG polls: Bilawal
LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that there would be no reconciliation now and the…
‘APML to take part in Punjab LG polls’
MULTAN: The APML will take part in the local government elections in the province and party chief Pervez Musharraf has convened a…
Sindh’s LG polls to be held in phases
KARACHI: The three phases for conducting local bodies polls beginning from October 31 have been decided on the basis of…
LG elections: Poll officials notified for Rawalpindi district
RAWALPINDI: The Election Commission of Pakistan has notified names of district returning officers (DROs), Returning officers…
View from the courtroom : ECP verdict helps in breaching tradition of disenfranchisement of women in Dir
LAHORE: Representatives from all opposition parties in the province would approach the Election Commission of Pakistan office on…
LHC bans printing, broadcast of Altaf’s speeches, pictures
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday ordered the chairmen of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra)…
Rifts in Faisalabad PML-N getting bigger by the day
Local level differences are widening within the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), as the central leader of PML-N and former…
Parvez Elahi insists on boycotting polls till ECP members resign
Pakistan Muslim League (PML) Senior Central Leader and former deputy prime minister Parvez Elahi has asked the opposition to…
ECP calls political parties on Sept 10 to discuss LG polls
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has summoned meeting of heads of all major political parties on September 10…
Ayaz Sadiq challenges NA-122 tribunal verdict in Supreme Court
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Monday challenged the verdict by an election tribunal on…
Seven parties make seat adjustments to outdo PML-N
LAHORE: As many as seven opposition parties have decided to form a grand political alliance against the ruling Pakistan Muslim…
Nomination papers filing process for LB polls starts in Sindh, Punjab
ISLAMABAD: The submission of nomination papers for the local bodies elections, being held after 10 years, started today (Monday)…
Political bigwigs of Larkana form anti-PPP alliance for LB polls
SUKKUR: The Anti-PPP bigwigs from different political parties, including former federal minister and relative of Shaheed Benazir…
PPP to decide on resignations from parliament: Khursheed
SUKKUR: The Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, has said that the party would decide…
PM active to stop PPP from opening new front
ISLAMABAD: As Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tries to woo inflexible Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), he has asked his squad to stop…
MQM never kept its word: Zardari
ISLAMABAD: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) always dishonoured the promises it made to the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP),…
Dual celebrations: PTI kick-starts poll campaign on defence day
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) took out a rally on Sunday to pay tribute to those who had sacrificed their lives for…
No major changes in PPP Punjab leadership likely
ISLAMABAD: No major change is likely in the leadership of the Punjab chapter of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) during the…
Railways minister may take fresh public mandate
ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is likely to opt for by-election or finally decide otherwise in…
Senate panel asks govt to drop proposal seeking voting rights for expats
ISLAMABAD: A senate panel has requested the government to drop a proposal against providing voting rights to overseas Pakistanis.
LG elections: 60 civil servants seek polling duty exemption
ISLAMABAD: Wary of political bashing, dozens of civil servants appointed to supervise the upcoming local government (LG)…
Bodies to assist ECP in LG polls
LAHORE: The Punjab government has constituted provincial to district level committees to assist the Election Commission of…
Guns blazing: JUI-F to go after party defectors
PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl will contact the Election Commission of Pakistan for the disqualification of its defecting…
Fazl withdraws from being arbitrator between govt, MQM
ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman withdrew himself to play a role as arbitrator on the issue of…
LG election-2015: ECP sets conditions for governments
In order to ensure free, fair & transparent local bodies elections 2015, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued…
PML-N seeks time for issuing party tickets
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N has urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to extend time for submission of party tickets for…
PTI to make new Sindh not new province, says Imran
SUKKUR: The Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, on Friday said he will make a new Sindh and not a new…
LHC seeks reply from ECP over cancellation of tribunal members’ contracts
LAHORE: Justice Ijazul Ahsan of Lahore High Court on Thursday issued notice to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on a…
ECP issues schedule for 2nd phase of LG polls in Punjab, Sind
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan yesterday issued schedule for the second phase of Local Government elections in…
Kazim turns down EC’s plea
ISLAMABAD: Former Election Tribunal Judge Kazim Malik has turned down the Election Commission’s plea to be the judge for the…
LG elections: Distribution of nomination forms begins
SUKKUR: The distribution of forms for local bodies’ elections has begun in some cities of upper Sindh at a slow pace as political…
No talks unless three basic demands met: MQM
KARACHI: Ruling out a fresh round of negotiations with the government on the issue of resignations of MQM parliamentarians until…
Imran’s efforts futile as people have rejected him, says Bilawal
SUKKUR: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said whatever efforts Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)…
ECP should reject government dictation: Qadri
Pakistan Awami Tehreek Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri has said by keeping away political parties that have been working for election…