Tag: Polls

Ulema to defeat foreign agents in upcoming elections: Siraj ul Haq

KALAT: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Siraj ul Haq has said that in the forthcoming elections, the custodians of the mosque will defeat the agents of London...

SC issues notice to Ishaq Dar over approval of nomination papers...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday issued a notice to former finance minister Ishaq Dar over a plea pertaining to approval of his...

Banned ASWJ plans to contest polls under changed name: report

ISLAMABAD: The banned party Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) is likely to contest the upcoming general election under a new name, as reported by...

PP-30 Sargodha by-polls to be held on Sunday

SARGODHA: By-polls in the provincial assembly constituency PP-30 Sargodha will be held on Sunday. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has completed all arrangements in...

No programme, no debate but Putin cruising to poll win

Running with a lacklustre slogan, no programme and refusing to debate his opponents, it sometimes seems like Russian President Vladimir Putin is not campaigning...

ECP postpones polls in CEC’s village ‘under mysterious circumstances’: report

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has postponed the scheduled election in the village of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sardar Muhammad Raza "under...

ECP seeks details of PTI intra-party polls by 27th

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has directed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to submit details about its intra-party polls by Dec 27. The ECP summoned details...

Polls on time, provinces agree in CCI meeting

Ahsan Iqbal replaces Ishaq Dar as CCI member Sindh CM seeks re-verification of census results by third party PM’s aide says work on...

PPP is not ready for polls, PTI is

Arif Nizami says PPP did not support PTI because they’re not ready to go into polls   An election at this stage is would not suit...

Rashid blames AJK prime minister for inciting violence

  Federal Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid blamed Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majid for the violence in Kotli which left two...

PTI’s intra-party polls process being polished to perfection

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s top guns will join heads today (Monday) to give the final finishing touches to the modus operandi of how the much-talked-about...

Infighting, rebel groups hurt PML-N as Islamabad goes to vote

Over 2,300 candidates in the race for LG polls; PML-N and PTI go head to head with 506 and 479 candidates; disgruntled PML-N leaders...

Obama congratulates Myanmar on polls, as army vows smooth power shift

Myanmar said Thursday President Barack Obama had congratulated the nation on holding "free and fair" election, as the government and army chief promised a...

Ghosts of the LG polls past and future

And the elected acting like dummies   The Constitution of Pakistan establishes the state as a federal parliamentary republic, comprising four provinces: Punjab (95 million), Sindh...

Security measures for LB elections

The city police have put in place comprehensive and effective security measures to ensure law and order during the local government elections to be...

SCBA polls today, tough competition expected

  The annual presidential elections of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will be held on Thursday with a tough competition expected among the candidates. Asma...

ECP extends poll tribunals’ tenure by two months

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday extended the tenures of tribunals working countrywide for the fourth time by at least two months, directing them to finish hearings of the pending election petitions as soon as possible.