Tag: Elections
Elections only option to end crisis: Sheikh Rasheed
Awami Muslim League (AML) leader Sheikh Rasheed said on Wednesday that there was no option except elections to end the present crisis in the...
ECP announces by-elections in 8 constituencies
Many positions have fallen vacant after the disqualification of dual nationality holders from the by-elections. The Election Commission (EC) has announced that by-elections in...
Islamists protest after Jordan king calls early elections
Thousands of Islamists demonstrated in central Amman to call for reforms on Friday, just hours after King Abdullah II dissolved parliament and called early...
PPP-led Govt takes all measures to hold fair‚ free elections: Jahangir...
Leader of the House in Senate and Secretary General Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Jahangir Badr has said that the PPP-led government will take all...
PPP, PML-Q to field joint candidates in elections
The PPP and the PML-Q, while maintaining their alliance, will field joint candidates in the upcoming by-elections as well as in the general elections.
The...
Israeli media, ministers float early elections
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to call elections in mid-February 2013, more than six months early, Israeli media and ministers said on...
Saakashvili concedes defeat in Georgia elections
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili conceded defeat Tuesday in parliamentary polls that handed a shock victory to an opposition coalition led by billionaire tycoon Bidzina...
Free elections, recovery of missing persons only solution to Balochistan problem:...
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Nawaz Sharif on Monday called for the recovery of all missing Baloch persons and a free, fair and transparent election,...
Transparent elections impossible under Zardari: JI chief
Free, fair and transparent elections under President Asif Ali Zardari are impossible, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hasan said on Sunday.
Addressing a rally, the...
Next general elections to be held on time: Kaira
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that the next general elections will be held on time in a free‚ fair...
Overseas Pakistanis will not vote in next elections
The Election Commission of Pakistan on Wednesday decided that more then 4 million overseas Pakistani's will not exercise their right to vote from their...
Free and fair elections
The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd) Fakhuruddin G Ibrahim has resolved to ensure free and fair general elections scheduled to be held next...
PML-N to start campaign for timely elections
In an effort to pressurize the federal government for holding general elections according to schedule, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has decided to hold...
Nawaz warns against delay in elections
PML-N President Nawaz Sharif has warned against any delay in the holding of elections, saying that would take the country closer to more devastation...
National elections first
Let’s not put the horse before the cart
Over the last four years, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has become so used to facing one...
PML-Q to contest next elections jointly with PPP, says Shujaat
Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that his party and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had decided to contest next...
LG polls an excuse to postpone general elections, says Qureshi
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that PTI rejects the Local Government Ordinance 2012 passed by the Sindh government. Speaking at...