Tag: Elections

The newly-formed Election Commission of Pakistan on Monday banned candidates having dual nationality from participating in elections. The decision was taken in a meeting...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has declared individuals with dual nationalities ineligible to take part in elections and has recommended that the government...

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is trying to convene sessions of the National and Sindh Assemblies to discuss the Azad Kashmir elections. The party...

Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) leader Babar Awan has said that the PPP is the biggest democratic party of the Asia while the loser should...

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Wednesday that the PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif had tried to create...

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid senior central leader and Defence Production and Industries Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi claimed on Monday that AJK elections in Lahore were...

SNGPL’s Extraordinary General Meeting was held under the Chairmanship of Misbah-ur-Rehman. In the meeting, shareholders exercised their right of vote to elect, for the...

SNGPL’s Extraordinary General Meeting was held under the Chairmanship of Misbah-ur-Rehman. In the meeting, shareholders exercised their right of vote to elect, for the...

A new row appears to have erupted between the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on the issue of Kashmir...

The central leader of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and former law minister Babar Awan said on Thursday that the PPP led-coalition government will complete...

President Asif Ali Zardari has decided not to give party ticket to former minister Raza Rabbani for the next Senate election as he has...

The alliance between the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) will prove durable and both the parties may continue the...

LAHORE - Jaago Tehreek, a group of like-minded people, on Tuesday demanded a ban on dual nationality holders from contesting the next general election. Jaago Tehreek has initiated a campaign to strengthen the political acumen of citizens from Lahore. Renowned journalist Qayyum Nizami, Scientist Dr Muhammad Sadiq and Engineer Abdul Majeed Khan are among the main founders of the organisation. They have requested the general public, through their message, that they should cast their

LAHORE - Some faculty members at the Punjab University (PU), who were allegedly 'favoured' by the PU Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Mujahid Kamran, have united against the PU VC in the varsity's upcoming syndicate's elections, Pakistan Today has learnt. The faculty members say that they will cast votes against the Teachers Front (TF), a pro-administration and pro-VC group.
According to some faculty member, the VC was asked several times to stop illegally favouring the teachers, who

LAHORE - The Academic Group at the Punjab University (PU), a rightist ideology group lead by pro-Jamat-i-Islami (JI) teachers, finally divorced the Academic Forum (AF), a leftist group, on the issue of candidates in upcoming syndicate's elections, which are scheduled to be held on April 21.
These both groups united against the PU administration, in the beginning of this year, to 'secure corrupt officials' in both groups. The PU faculty opposed this alliance because the two

BELGRADE - Over 50,000 people took to the streets of Belgrade on Saturday for anti-government protests as the leader of an opposition nationalist party announced a hunger strike to force early elections.
"Since this morning, I did not drink or eat. I ask you to accept this as the last resort to fight for a better Serbia," Tomislav Nikolic told a stunned crowd of over 50,000 of his supporters gathered in front of the Serbian parliament for a protest labelled a day of change.