Tag: Elections
PPP’s decision of holding early elections gets mixed reaction
While the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) refused to make a formal comment on the Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) decision to hold Senate and general...
2012 year of elections: Rana Sanaullah
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that PML-N is in contact with all other political parties to get rid of this corrupt government,...
PPP’s core committee decides to hold by-elections on vacant seats
The Core Committee of Pakistan Peoples’ Party has decided to hold by-elections to all the vacant seats in the assemblies.
The meeting of PP Core...
‘Call early elections before it’s too late’
Reiterating his demand for early general elections, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday that general elections should be called before...
Obama ‘more optimistic now’ than 2008
US President Barack Obama said Tuesday he was more optimistic now than four years ago when he won the Iowa caucuses, putting him on...
A desertion
PML(N) in a pickle
The decision by Makhdum Javed Hashmi to join the PTI along with daughter and MNA Maimuna Hashmi is yet another reflection...
Egypt’s Islamists sweep second round of elections
Egypt’s main Islamist parties won 65 percent of votes for party lists in the second round of a historic election for a new parliament...
Canning democracy
It’s the peoples’ system and the people shall fix it
Who says Pakistan’s political leadership wants democracy? Review the last week and give me a...
Egypt Islamists try to hold lead in second round of voting
Egyptians voted Wednesday in the second round of a parliamentary election with Islamist parties seeking to bolster early gains and secure a dominant position...
Protecting our own
On the pro-women legislation
Law and society, they have a mutually affective relation. While the former reflects and/or codifies the changing attitudes of the latter...
CJP’s presence would ensure fair elections: Imran
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan said the presence of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry would ensure the holding of free and fair elections.
Speaking...
Russia braces for parliamentary elections
Russians prepared Saturday for parliamentary elections amid dwindling support for the ruling United Russia party and unprecedented pressure on election observers. Voting in the...
Before the polls
Autonomy for the commission
The mere occurrence of elections, we are tutored, does not imply the presence of democracy. There is more to democracy than...
Egyptians begin voting in first post-Mubarak poll
Egyptians began voting Monday morning in the first elections since the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak who was ousted in February in one of...
Egypt on edge ahead of elections
Egypt’s army rulers, protesters and future political leaders were locked in a fierce power struggle on Sunday that set the country on edge ahead...
Senate seats for sale
According to a news report in an Urdu daily, in the wake of the upcoming Senate elections, the price to become a Senator in...
‘Reject existing electoral system’
Minhaj-ul-Quran chief Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri on Saturday asked the nation to reject the existing electoral system and invited students to play the same role as...