Tag: Elections

Doctors warm up as CPSP elections approach

Lahore - Senior doctors across the country have sprung to action after the election schedule for the council and the coveted slot of the president, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan (CPSP) has been announced, Pakistan today has learnt.
The CPSP is the only body which conducts post graduate medical training in the country and produces fellows of the college of physicians and surgeons of Pakistan (FCPS). The affairs of the CPSP are run by a 20-member elected council

PU rival groups team up to win ASA elections

LAHORE - For the first time in the Punjab University's (PU) history, two rival groups having completely different ideologies - the Academic Group, consisting of pro-Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and pro-Islami Jamiat-e-Talba (IJT) teachers - and the Academic Forum, consisting of leftist teachers, defeated the Teachers Front (TF), a group consisting of neutral teachers and those supported by the VC, in the Academic Staff Association (ASA) elections held at the varsity.
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PU hesitant to hold syndicate meeting before ASA elections

LAHORE - Punjab University (PU) administration is avoiding holding its 1686th syndicate meeting to decide the fate of those teachers that are facing corruptions charges, before the Academic Staff Association's (ASA) general elections scheduled to be held on January 13, Pakistan Today learnt on Tuesday.
PU sources said that the entire teaching community awaits the syndicate meeting, which besides other agenda items, will decide the fate of some Pro Jamat-e-Islami and Pro Islami

Ibrar Mumtaz wins Punjab Club elections

Lahore - Members of the Punjab Club elected members to the committee of management through voting which continued for three days, concluding on Friday.
According to details, a total of 13 candidates were in the race for eight seats of members to the committee of management. There are 300 members eligible to cast their votes in the Punjab Club. The voting continued for three days, with one hour every day.
According to final results, Ibrar Mumtaz bagged maximum number of votes

Election early birds – Independent candidates gear up for elections

LAHORE - Anticipating the changing political climate and recent moves on the political front as countdown bells for the general elections, many prospective independent candidates have launched public-liaison campaigns in Lahore to introduce themselves among voters as candidates, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Interestingly, political groups have geared up preparations in name of local government elections but political workers have termed their party restructuring, workers contact

PMA elections to be held on 29th

LAHORE - Continuing in the tradition of holding branch elections every two years, Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Lahore chapter elections would be held on December 29 at the PMA House, Ferozepur Road, Lahore, PMA Lahore Election Commissioner Professor Ashraf Nizami and Deputy Election Commissioner Dr Shahid Malik made this announcement in a press conference at the PMA House.
They said that after scrutiny and objections from candidates, the nomination papers of Dr Yasmeen

‘Lahore royals’ will face people’s wrath in LG elections, says Awan

LAHORE: The self-proclaimed "Royals of Lahore" would face the people's wrath in the upcoming local government (LG) elections for making anti-masses decisions, Federal Law Minister Senator Dr Babar Awan said on Sunday.
He made these remarks while addressing Pakistan People's Party (PPP) workers at Muslim Town. Party leaders and workers were present in large numbers on the occasion and chanted slogans in the party's favour. Awan said that he had failed to understand why the

DHA elections raise residents’ hopes of participatory decision-making

LAHORE: How will the new DHA Residents' Association solve residential problems and increase the say of residents in DHA administrative matters is the question residents are asking with the DHA Residents' Association 2011-2013 elections scheduled for December 5 (Sunday).
With electioneering at full throttle, DHA is set for free, fair and impartial elections with 6,000 members of the association expected to actively participate. Election Commissioner Group Captain Tayyab Siddiqui

GCU scandals mar ORU elections

LAHORE: Surfacing of one scandal after the other at the Government College University (GCU) forced old ravians to stay away from the annual elections of the Old Ravians Union (ORU), as a very low voter turnout was witnessed during the polling on Sunday with only 584 out of the total 6,500 members casting their vote, Pakistan Today has learnt.
ORU member said that poor policies of GCU Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Khalid Aftab, the recent issue of Registrar Faisal Khurshid, faculty

Disaster-ravaged Haiti begins voting in key elections

PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haitians early Sunday began voting for a new president and lawmakers in an election marred by violence and concerns about fraud, while a cholera epidemic eats away at the earthquake-ravaged country.
Voters will choose a successor to President Rene Preval, who is not running for re-election, as well as 11 of the country's 30 senators and all 99 parliamentary deputies in the landmark vote.
Balloting began in most of the country shortly before 6:00 am (1100

Democrats brace for mid-term elections rout

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama's Democratic Party braced on Monday for an elections rout, as a wave of 11th-hour polls showed the Republican Party on course for big gains in Congress amid deep voter anger at the sour economy.
Obama, fearing a ballot-box repudiation just two years into his campaign for change, planned a wave of radio interviews and telephone calls to Democratic volunteers key to boosting party turnout on Tuesday, the White House said.
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Myanmar says Suu Kyi may be freed after elections

HANOI: Myanmar has said that democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi may be freed after November 7 elections, as it attempts to deflect a barrage of criticism over the discredited polls.
Myanmar's elections, the nation's first in two decades, have been derided as a sham by critics who say they lack any credibility without the participation of Suu Kyi and other opposition figures.
Foreign Minister Nyan Win flagged the release at Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) talks,