Tag: Senate polls

Amir Khan announces six names for Senate race against four suggested by Farooq Sattar Khawaja Izharul Hassan says MQM-P will remain united KARACHI: The...

Seeks JI’s help for Sarwar’s victory Imran Khan calls meeting of PTI Punjab MPs   LAHORE: With the isolated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) gearing up for the...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) parliamentary board’s consultative huddle on Tuesday finalised the names of candidates across the country for the upcoming Senate elections...

Dr Farooq Sattar and Amir Khan at odds over giving ticket to Kamran Tessori Tessori no longer in Rabita Committee, faces suspension from party...

Number of PML-N senators, cabinet members, MNAs seek Senate seats due to PML-N's uncertain future after 2018 general elections  Party insiders claim Maryam...

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Secretary General Liaquat Baloch and JI Punjab Secretary General Ameer Mian Maqsood Ahmad called on Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Ch Shujat...

Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said Sunday Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) had been trying to overthrow the elected government through sit-ins and now it was trying...

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday directed the federal government to submit a presidential decree regarding Senate polls for FATA representatives. An IHC bench...

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sardar Raza Khan Thursday rejected former senator Abbas Khan Afridi’s petition seeking adjournment of Senate elections in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

Blurring the lines between diplomacy and duplicity, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Tuesday embraced the obvious by shoring up the opposition’s decision to seat Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Raza Rabbani at the helm of affairs in the Upper House.

A candidate for Senate elections from Khyber Agency, Haji Momin, is convicted for having links with militants while an arrest warrant has also been...

Former Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) secretary Kanwar Dilshad has termed the presidential ordinance for change in election process on Senate seats of FATA “unconstitutional”.

After the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) parliamentarians were left high and dry by the issuance of a late Wednesday night presidential order which constrained their voting power to a singular, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Thursday pleaded the government to revoke the ordinance passed hours before the Senate polls on Thursday, while Islamabad High Court (IHC) was also moved in this regard.

Various political leaders have criticised the alleged irregularities in the Senate polls conducted on Thursday across the assemblies.

The Senate elections brought a mix bag of good and bad news for the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) as the party, which although claimed Punjab and Islamabad, fell short of its expected results in Balochistan where two of its candidates lost to political nobodies.

ISLAMABAD- Members National Assembly (MNAs) from Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on Thursday challenged the presidential ordinance concerning the voting procedure in senate elections in...

With stage set for the election of 52 new members of the Upper House of the Parliament today at the federal capital and four provincial assemblies, top political leadership seems clueless on the fate of their candidates as the lawmakers may violate party discipline amid claims of use of illicit money being used for horse-trading.