Tag: Elections
General elections to be held on time: Kaira
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira on Sunday said general elections would be held on time and those propagating against the popularity...
Free and fair elections
The nation never had the good fortune of witnessing a peaceful and fair transfer of power from one government to another. The manipulated results...
Gilani says smooth transition through fair elections his dream
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said smooth transition to the next government was his dream which would be realized for the first...
Early elections possible only if Opp gives up confrontation: Shah
Federal Minister Khursheed Shah said on Tuesday that the current assemblies would be dissolved on March 30, 2013, and the caretaker government would be...
Musharraf critical of squandering national wealth
Pervez Musharraf - all Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Chief and former President General (rtd.) - has said that he will come back to Pakistan...
SHC orders Sindh govt to hold local body elections in 90...
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday directed the Sindh government to hold local body elections within a period of 90 days.
According to a...
Oil slides on deepening fears over eurozone
Oil extended losses in Asian trade Friday on growing concerns that the eurozone's debt woes could worsen, causing a global crisis that would ravage...
Elections could lead to civil war: Shahbaz
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday said the system was not functioning properly and elections conducted under such circumstances would lead to civil...
Shah advises PML-N to wait for next elections
Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah on Saturday said people had voted for the PPP government and President Asif Zardari which was the main...
European elections have multi-pronged ramifications
History, they say, is a useful gauge to understand both the present and indeed the future, meticulously. While this argument has a not-so-strong flipside...
Parties urge ECP to complete electoral reforms before elections
Political parties on Friday urged the government and the Election Commission of Pakistan to speed up the process of electoral reforms in Pakistan well...
LHC CJ criticises Punjab for not holding local govt polls
Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Wednesday criticised the Punjab government for not holding local government elections in the province and...
SC says LB elections a constitutional requirement
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday said local bodies elections were not held despite being a constitutional requirement. The remarks came during the...
SC terms local polls as constitutional requirement
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry on Thursday said the elections of local bodies are a constitutional requirement, adding that the court...
Spat before IHCBA elections
A frustrated leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party and former law minister, Senator Babar Awan, suffered another blow, on Thursday, when the members of...
SC directs provinces to submit schedule for LG elections
Hearing a case relating to local government elections, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked all top legal officers of the provinces and the attorney...
How tax-free budgets win you elections, Book 3, Chapter 12
One can aptly smell politicking on the part of the present democratically-elected government which is all set to present a tax-free federal budget for...
