Tag: Polls

LAHORE - More than 10,000 members of the Lahore Bar Association (LBA) will cast votes on Saturday to elect their 117th representative cabinet for 2011-12. Polling arrangements have been completed at the Zila Katchery where polling will be held from 9am to 5pm with one hour prayer break from 1pm to 2pm. Candidates have been campaigning for several months for coveted slots while the official campaigning time ends on Thursday night. According to details, LBA annual elections are going to

DUBAI - Former president Pervez Musharraf on Monday said his party, the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), was prepared for possible early elections, as the government scrambled to save its ruling coalition.
Musharraf said he will return to Pakistan before the next election. "We are ready to contest elections," Musharraf told reporters at his apartment in Dubai. "A little more time would be useful, as we are a new party. However, we will definitely try if the elections come

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf on Monday demanded that the government would give the date for new polls after its two coalition partners, Muttahida Quami Movement and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal had left the coalition.
PTI leader Umar Sarfaraz Cheema told Pakistan Today that the country could only be pulled out of the existing turmoil, if mid-term elections were held at the earliest. He said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was protecting the Pakistan People's Party

LAHORE - Hectic lobbying and canvassing reaches its epitome for the coveted slot of chairman Lahore Gymkhana, as the panel led by incumbent chairman and prominent businessman Misbaurrehman come face-to-face with the panel led by a retired bureaucrat Ziaurehman on Thursday.
Efforts on collective and individual levels have been witnessed prior to the elections for throughout December. Both panels threw dinners and parties in Lahore Gymkhana to contact and woo maximum number of

lahore - Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) has announced its full support to Mian Misbah - ur -Rehman Group in the elections of Lahore Gymkhana.
This decision was taken in a meeting of PPMA which was attended by Vice Chairman (Central) Khawaja Shahzeb Akram, Mian Asad Shuja ur-Rehamn, Regional Chairman Mansoor Dilawar, Muhammad Zak ur- Rehman and other representatives of Pharmaceutical Industry.
Shahzeb Akram said that the contributions of Mian

LAHORE - Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has predicted that next year will bring the election season citing the active connections between political parties as reason while talking to reporters in Lahore on Sunday.

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Fifty-seven candidates will be vying for 22 seats of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC), as the eminent body of lawyers goes to polls today (Wednesday) at the provincial bar councils.
According to Attorney General for Pakistan Anwarul Haq, who is the ex-officio chairman of the PBC and also the returning officer, 57 candidates would be in the run from all provinces. Members of provincial bar councils will be voting to elect 22 PBC members from their respective

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has finalised arrangements to hold its elections on December 22 and at the same time invisible elements are also working to lead the candidates of their choice to victory stand.
According to some senior lawyers, in the scenario of the government-judiciary relations which have been fluctuating over a few months, a great importance is being attached to the PBC elections in which political interference and spending of huge money under political

LAHORE - Supreme Court Bar Association President Asma Jahangir has said that the judiciary was illegally influencing upcoming polls of the Pakistan Bar council (PBC), only to usher in a pro-judiciary lobby in the bar. She said it spoke volumes of the attitude of the judiciary.
"I am sad to see that judges are attending tea parties to secure vote for candidates of their likings in the PBC scheduled for December 22," Asma told a news conference after attending the SCBA's first

KARACHI: Fissures have emerged among members of the Sindh Bar Council (SBC), with Sindhi-speaking lawyers forming a panel of their own ahead of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) polls on December 22 in an attempt to combat "discrimination on ethnic basis," Pakistan Today has learnt.
Two panels had traditionally existed in the SBC; one led by Rasheed A Rizvi and the other by Yasin Azad. A third panel has now emerged, and is being led by SBC Vice-Chairman Ali Muhammad Dahiry

CHICHAWATNI: PPP MNA Zahid Iqbal has said that PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had announced that 2011 would be the year of local government elections, adding the party would participate in these elections without allying with any party.
Zahid said that he was available for the people of his constituency and they could access him for any problem. He was talking to media men at Central Anjuman-e-Tajran Chief Patron Abdul Salam's house here during a party meeting.
The

CAIRO: Egyptians headed to the polls Sunday in a legislative vote marred by violence and protests that is expected to see the ruling party emerge stronger at the expense of the harried Islamist opposition.
Violent clashes took place at several centres, with witnesses saying police fired tear gas at voters in the Nile Delta and in Qena, about 475 kilometres (300 miles) south of Cairo.
Egyptian monitors said election irregularities were rife and evident from the start of

LAHORE: Bad news is in the offing for the embattled and besieged PPP-led government, as PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif is about to break free from the shackles of his 10-year exile agreement that expires on November 27, making him eligible to contest elections, more appropriately, mid-term elections.
"The party has waited for the moment patiently despite all odds. There will be no more strings attached after November 27 and foreign friends look happy with Nawaz's conduct for sticking

LAHORE: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would soon start a public campaign for preparing for the local government (LG) elections and strengthening the party in the city, PPP Lahore Women Wing President Faiza Malik said on Saturday in a press release.
She said that the federal government would complete its constitutional tenure, as it had assumed power with the support of the masses instead of any state institution.
The PPP leader said that consistency in democracy was

ISLAMABAD: Denying demands from various quarters for mid-term elections, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said being the protector of the parliament, he would never dissolve the assembly.
"There are two ways of going for mid-term elections... either I dissolve the assembly or martial law is imposed in the country... but none of the two will happen," a Gilani replied to PML-N MNA Hanif Abbasi's point of order criticising the government and demanding mid-term elections.