Tag: Elections

Qureshi demands new elections

Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday demanded new general elections, saying that Zardari league government has failed to tackle the problems of...

Seats for sale?

In Pakistan, one senator seat is sold for crores of rupees. The senators are nominated and voted for by the parliamentarians, who charge these...

Ineligible people included in candidates’ list, alleges Engr Wahab

Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) member Wahab Najeeb Haroon said on Sunday that the names of ineligible persons had been included in the list of...

Harnessing technology for electoral transparency

In the midst of Pakistan’s never ending disasters and serious governance challenges, streamlining the voter’s list is the last thing on the public agenda....

The election cycles are here

As the search for endgame in Afghanistan picks steam, the election cycle of Pakistan is also picking pace, just as it is in US....

Morocco gears up for poll with eyes on Islamists, turnout

Morocco opened its campaign for November 25 legislative elections Saturday, with moderate Islamists seen as possible winners and fears of a low turnout in...

Imran vows to field 1,000 candidates in next elections

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Wednesday that he would field 1,000 candidates across the country in the next general elections. Imran...

What is not to be done?

Watching Shahbaz Sharif and then Imran Khan over the weekend hold million spellbound with their rhetoric about “revolution” and the “throne of Lahore” was...

The political machine

In 1981, my brother, John Zogby, ran for Mayor of Utica, New York. Like other factory towns across New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-Western...

Tunisia’s first post-revolution elections underway

Polls opened in a joyful though serious mood Sunday in Tunisia’s first-ever free elections, with an Islamic party poised to win nine months after...

Polls open in Tunisia’s first post-revolution elections

Polls opened at 07.00 am (0600 GMT) Sunday in Tunisia's first-ever free elections, nine months after the surprise toppling of strongman Zine el Abidine...

NUML professor to oversee Kyrgyz elections

Professor Dr ZA Qureshi of the National University of Modern Languages (NUML) has been invited by the Election Commission of Kyrgyz Republic to observe...

The plans of men

The political cauldron is on the boil again, some may say prematurely, for there is still some time to go between now and the...

Déjà vu

This Presidential election is beginning to look a lot like the contest of 1996, which saw a battered Bill Clinton win a second term...

MQM to contest from all Punjab constituencies: Altaf

Muatahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain said that if Punjab Assembly is dissolved, then his party would contest elections from all the constituencies...

Upcoming elections to prove N-League as “Nakaam” League: Awan

The leader of Pakistan Peoples Party, Dr Babar Awan has said PML-N will become ‘Failed (Nakaam) League’ in upcoming elections. Addressing a gathering here...

Fazl may have to face Imran in next elections

JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman may have to face tough time in the next general elections as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) is considering fielding party...