Tag: local government elections

Killings, restrictions on observers highlight LG elections in Sindh

  Killings and bar on observation highlighted phase one of the local government elections in Sindh, said a report of Free and Fair Election Network...

LG polls show PML-N won 2013 elections fair and square: Rashid

  Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Pervaiz Rashid said on Sunday that a similar pattern had emerged in the elections results in Cantonment...

PML-N clean sweeps with 230 seats

  Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) clean swept in the Metropolitan Corporation Lahore (MCL) by securing 230 Union Council (UC) seats, out of the total 274...

PML-N wins Kasur with 28 seats

  Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) grabbed 28 seats in Municipal Committee Kasur during the first phase of the local government elections while independent candidates won...

Wattoo banking on independents to win chairman, vice chairman slots in...

Pakistan Peoples Party Punjab President Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo said on Sunday that the PPP could win the chairman and vice chairman slots in...

CM takes notice of clash between two groups in Nankana Sahib

Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday took notice of a clash between two rival groups in Nankana Sahib which left two people...

JI loses in Mansoora, PTI in Zaman Park; Rana Sanaullah group...

  Both Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) lost in their strongholds in Lahore, while Rana Sanaullah group in Faisalabad may have lost the key...

Shehbaz Sharif congratulates PML-N winning candidates

Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday congratulated candidates of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on winning their seats in the first phase of...

Three quarters of polling stations declared sensitive and highly sensitive in...

3,551 polling stations declared highly sensitive; 8,300 declared sensitive; media asked not to disseminate material to affect public opinion against any candidate or party The...

LG elections not inspiring high hopes

    While political parties have jumped with both feet into the political fray to contest the local government elections, most of the people are still...

ECP defers LG elections in some UCs of Attock, Chakwal, Gujrat,...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has deferred local government elections in six each union councils of Chakwal and Attock districts, two union councils...

PA denies direct elections to women, minorities and workers

Passes LG amendments, adopts three resolutions The Punjab Assembly during the first sitting of the 17th session on Wednesday passed Local Government (Amendment) Bill 2015...

LHC dismisses plea challenging Punjab LB polls in phases

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday dismissed a petition challenging the conduct of local bodies’ (LB) elections in phases in Punjab. Justice Ijazul Ahsan...

CDA least bothered toward civil problems: Citizen Committee

Islamabad Citizen Committee President Latif Ahmed Rana said on Wednesday that civic problems were deteriorating day by and day in the federal capital and...

As LG polls loom, Sindh govt announces Rs 150b for Karachi...

Minister dispels impression that development funds are aimed at influencing upcoming local govt elections in PPP’s favour The Sindh government on Monday announced a Rs...