Tag: Polls

The activists of Muttahida Qaumi Movement demonstrated against the postponement of election in Karachi and Peshawar constituencies for Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday....

As all but three constituencies of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly go to polls today (Sunday), the Muttahida Qaumi Movement announced to...

Endorsing the Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) demand that fresh mandate should be sought from the people and new elections be held in the country, the PML-N...

The PML-N is all set to face defeat in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir election in the wake of brewing internal rifts, cracks in...

As the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) elections are just a few days away, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Sunday announced its election...

Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday said PPP had evolved a strategy to foil every bid of the Punjab...

As many as 40 polling stations out of total 257 have been declared sensitive regarding the AJK Legislative Assembly general elections scheduled to be...

Australian leader Julia Gillard said she felt “very secure” and vowed to stay the course Saturday, after an unprecedented slump in the polls and...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Khwaja Saad Rafique has said there would be no legal and constitutional status of elections for the Azad Jammu and...

The ruling coalition partners, the PPP and the PML-Q, Wednesday agreed on seat adjustments for the upcoming general election in Azad Jammu and Kashmir,...

Pakistan Peoples Party has given ticket to Ch Maqbool Ahmed for LA-31, Jammu 2, for upcoming elections of Azad Jammu Kashmir, a press statement...

Leaders of the Muttahida Muslim League (MML) will contest the next general election from the platform of the unified Muslim League, Senior MML leader...

The PPP and the PML-Q are all set to finalise a seat-adjustment formula for the next general elections immediately after the budget. The seat...

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Likeminded has issued a third white paper against the government, saying both ruling parties at the Centre and provincial level should announce fresh general elections after accepting their failure. PML-Q Likeminded Punjab Information Secretary Mian Asif told a news conference that the volume of foreign loans had increased to $64 billion, electricity shortfall had risen to 5,000MW, 150 drone attacks had taken place and 621 terrorist

TOBA TEK SINGH - Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaquat Baloch has said that fresh general elections were the only solution to the problems being faced by the country as the present democratic setup has failed to deliver and solve the problems of the people.
Addressing a press conference at the local JI office in Garden Town the other day, he stated that President Asif Ali Zardari should quit the presidential slot as he was not acceptable to the nation. He also demanded the

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court on Thursday issued notices to the chief election commissioner, the local government secretary and the Sindh advocate general, seeking explanation over the delay in holding the local government elections.
After hearing preliminary arguments from the petitioner, the division bench comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi issued notices to the respondents while directing them to submit their comments on the constitutional

NEW DELHI - The southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu went to the polls on Wednesday in an election that is seen as testing the extent of public anger against the federal ruling Congress party battling a string of corruption scandals and high food prices.
Tamil Nadu, a swing state that helps give Congress a parliamentary majority, is ruled by the regional DMK party, a ruling coalition ally linked to a multi-billion dollar telecoms graft scandal that has roiled Asia's third-largest