Tag: Election
IB ex-chief Masood Sharif joins PTI
Former chief of Intelligence Bureau (IB) Major (Retd) Masood Sharif Khattak joined Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Friday.
Khattak, who had resigned from Pakistan Peoples Party...
Election tribunals yet to give verdict on 29 petitions against MNAs,...
The election tribunals constituted by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) have failed to dispose of 29 petitions filed against senators and members of...
Qatar to hold maiden legislative polls in 2013
Qatar will hold its maiden legislative polls in 2013, the emir of the Gulf state, which has backed pro-democracy uprisings elsewhere in the Arab...
Kyrgyz PM claims election victory as rivals rally
Kyrgyzstan’s Moscow-backed prime minister claimed victory on Monday in a presidential election, but observers reported some voting abuses and supporters of defeated candidates rallied...
Punjab govt requests extension to hold local body election
LAHORE - The Punjab government has requested the Election Commission for a six months extension to hold the local body elections in the province....
Libya’s NTC rules out new oil contracts before election
Libya will not award any further oil contracts until a government is formed after elections, the country’s interim oil and finance minister in the...
Transsexual makes history with seat in parliament
Anna Grodzka made history in Poland as the country's first transsexual member of parliament after a new anti-clerical party stormed to third place in...
Polish PM wins new term, markets buoyant
Centre-right leader Donald Tusk has become the first Polish prime minister since the fall of communism in 1989 to win a second consecutive term...
MPAs holding foreign assets worth billions: ECP
10 members of Sindh Assembly from PPP and MQM are holding assets worth billion of rupees outside the country, according to Election Commission of...
Potential Sarkozy rival quits election race
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's re-election prospects may have improved after popular former environment minister Jean-Louis Borloo said he would not run for president next...
Medvedev defends Putin swap plan
President Dmitry Medvedev vowed to overhaul Russia's government next year and defended plans for a job swap designed to return Vladimir Putin to the...
Muslim Brotherhood threatens election boycott
The credibility of Egypt’s first elections since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak was thrown into question Thursday after a coalition led by the Islamist...
Egypt lays out election timetable
Egypt will hold on November 28 its first parliamentary election since an uprising ousted president Hosni Mubarak in February, the ruling military announced in...
Right to vote for overseas Pakistanis under consideration
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that the Govt. is considering legislation to grant right of vote to...
‘Drone war an Obama election ploy’
US President Barack Obama is supporting the drone war in Pakistan as an “election campaign strategy” for next year’s presidential race, investigative journalist Gareth...
Pakistan drone war, Obama’s poll ploy: Gareth Porter
US President Barack Obama is following the drone war in Pakistan as an "election campaign strategy" for next year's
presidential race in the United States,...
Merkel party loses support in home state
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party suffered an electoral setback in her home state, exit polls suggested Sunday, but could still cling on to a...
