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After the shocking revelation that around 37 million voters registered in the electoral rolls compiled in 2007 were dubious, the federal audit authorities have...

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the government to constitute the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) within three weeks in accordance with the 18th...

Retracting the proposal submitted in 2009 which suggested an addition of one more reserved seat for women in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), the Election...

Chief Election Commissioner Justice (r) Hamid Ali Mirza will on Monday hear an important case filed by a PPP activist against Sindh Chief Minister...

ISLAMABAD - The Higher Education Commission, which is going to be dissolved in the name of the implementation of the 18th Amendment apparently for its bold stance on the verification of parliamentarians' degrees, has once again sought help from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to get educational documents of 254 parliamentarians for verification.
HEC Accreditation and Attestation Director General Rahim Bux Channa told Pakistan Today that degrees of 254 lawmakers had not

ISLAMABAD - In the backdrop of startling revelation of more than 37 million unverified and bogus votes in 2007 elector rolls, chief election commissioner has initiated an inquiry against a private firm which was hired by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for almost Rs 1 billion for making error-free electoral lists.
Election Commission Secretary Ishtiak Ahmed Khan told Pakistan Today during an interview on Saturday that the ECP paid almost Rs 1 billion in 2007 to a

ISLAMABAD - The parliamentary body tasked with fianlising the new chief election commissioner and reorganising the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will meet on April 6 to elect its chairman.
Amid hectic behind-the-scene lobbying by the ruling PPP to get its nominee elected to the top slot of the body, National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza has convened the meeting at the Parliament House. However, any final decision on the PPP's nominee would be held during the PPP

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday referred two more cases of legislators to the police seeking criminal proceedings against them for submitting fake graduation degrees, sources in the (ECP) told Pakistan Today on Monday. They said that Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd) Hamid Ali Mirza referred cases of former federal minister Yar Mohammad Rind and present provincial minister of Balochistan Maulvi Abdul Samad Akhundzada to District Police

ISLAMABAD - Election Commission of Pakistan is in the grip of internal unrest after the unexpected move of secretary to go for a long leave right before his retirement.
Work on projects initiated by the outgoing secretary, Ishtiak Ahmed, who on Tuesday applied leave prior to retirement (LPR), reportedly over his differences with Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Hamid Ali Mirza on various official issues have reached a standstill. A source in ECP said that a group of

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court has restrained the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) from disqualifying minority Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Pitambar Sehwani of the Pakistan People's Party. The court also ordered the ECP to give the MPA a chance to argue the case filed against him, alleging him of possessing a fake academic degree.
An SHC division bench, comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Azhar Rizvi, set aside the ECP notice whereby Sehwani's membership was

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ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday announced that it would initiate a legal action against the parliamentarians having dual nationality. After holding consultations with political parties, ECP Secretary Ishtiak Ahmed Khan told a press conference that under Article 63 of the constitution, dual nationality holders could not become members of the Parliament.
"Currently, the ECP have no record of the MPs with dual nationality; however, we are working in

ISLAMABAD - With the Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam (JUI-F) in search of its status in the Parliament - either to join the treasury or the opposition - Speaker National Assembly (NA) Dr Fehmida Mirza finds herself in a difficult position about announcing the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) for the constitution of an independent Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
The proposed committee, under Article 213 of the Constitution after the passage of 18th Amendment, shall comprise equal

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would prepare electoral rolls-2011 in collaboration with NADRA in the wake of Statistic Division's decision to increase the number of census blocks from 1,02,000 to 1,45,000 till 31st December 2011. For this purpose, the existing electoral rolls data will be shared with NADRA for the purpose of verification and augmentation of voters according to new census blocks, said a statement issued here on Tuesday.
It said that this

ISLAMABAD - Despite the about being an independent body, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has failed to get cases registered against the lawmakers holding fake degrees. Around 14 fake degrees cases were sent by the ECP to the district police officers (DPOs) concerned for necessary action, but only five have been registered so far.
A source told Pakistan Today that only one fake degree holder MPA, Sardar Ali from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, had been arrested, and he being an

ISLAMABAD - In an apparent bid to protect fake degree-holding parliamentarians, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is using delaying tactics to send cases of 21 lawmakers to police for the registration of FIRs against them.
The cases were closed a month ago by the hearing committee after conducting more than 17 hearings over a period of five months. The committee had referred the cases of 35 lawmakers' to the chief election commissioner for initiating appropriate action

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) cast doubts on the eligibility of 298 parliamentarians as they have failed to submit their educational documents with the Higher Education commission (HEC) for verification despite being asked several times since July last year."Get the required documents from these legislators," the HEC asked the ECP in a letter on Tuesday.Talking to Pakistan Today, ECP focal person Afzal Khan confirmed that the commission had received a letter