Tag: Polls

A meeting of the ruling coalition partners on Saturday decided in principle to hold the next general elections in March 2013, while endorsing the...

Feeling the heat of protests by workers of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) over the loss of Aslam Gill in Senate elections, the party’s...

Some surprises, no table turner though Despite challenges that at one point made many doubt if the PPP would be allowed to hold the Senate...

Awami National Party (ANP) took lead in Senate elections of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 6 out of 12 seats, followed by four seats of Pakistan...

The Pakistan People’s Party-led ruling coalition obtained two-thirds majority in the Senate on Friday after winning 41 out of the 54 seats put up...

According to an affidavit submitted with the Supreme Court by Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) former director general Lt Gen (r) Asad Durrani in 1996, he...

Opposition leader in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Tuesday that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and its allies could bring a...

Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan on Monday said the government wanted to secure majority in the coming general...

Poll rigging and exchange of fire between rival groups disturbed voting in different constituencies of National Assembly and provincial assemblies on Saturday. At least three...

Elections in India At noon on March 6, or perhaps an hour earlier, a great impasse will begin in parliament. This is not an astrologer’s...

With the uncertainty about the exact date of elections, every party in the country has started preparing for the ultimate battle for a right...

President Asif Ali Zardari has directed Pakistan Peoples Party’s Sindh ministers to take unanimous decisions in consultation with all coalition partners to pave the...

Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Monday that pre-term elections are possible. He was talking to MNA Asim Nazeer who called on him...

At a time when all political parties are engaged in wheeling and dealing for Senate elections after ECP’s announcement, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday announced the schedule for the Senate election and fixed March 2, 2012 as the polling day. Half...

Besides the government’s quiet efforts to secure a seat-adjustment arrangement between all the major political parties for Senate elections well ahead of the schedule,...

Asma Jahangir, lawyer for former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani on Thursday said elections could not bring democracy but it was an evolutionary...