Tag: Votes

The price journos have to pay…

Over 2,000 journalists may not get to vote due to reporting duties on May 11 Over 2,000 journalists working in Islamabad and Rawalpindi will not...

Ahmadis should cast votes as other non-Muslims: PUC

PUC declares casting of votes to be Islamic duty, endorses women’s right to vote in separate polling stations   The Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) has dispelled...

Egypt assembly votes on constitution

The Islamist-dominated assembly writing a new Egyptian constitution has convened to vote on the final draft. In one of its first steps, the constituent assembly...

Low turnout as Ireland votes to improve children’s rights

Ireland has voted to amend its constitution to improve children's rights, giving the state greater powers to intervene in cases of abuse and neglect,...

Tense Georgia votes in election showdown

Georgia voted on Monday in parliamentary polls that pit President Mikheil Saakashvili’s party against a billionaire tycoon who poses the first big challenge to...

‘Who votes after looking at surveys that favor PML-N?’

Pakistan Muslim League senior central leader and Deputy Prime Minister Pervaiz Elahi has said that if the Sharifs’ N-League government had concentrated more on...

Hong Kong votes in crucial legislative polls

Hong Kong voters went to the polls Sunday in legislative elections seen as a crucial test for the Beijing-backed government, as calls for full...

Obama in new push for women’s votes

US President Barack Obama aggravated a culture war battle over contraception as he wooed women voters Wednesday, warning that Mitt Romney's Republicans would turn...

CM concerned over reduction in Sindh votes

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has expressed concern over the reduction of votes in the province according to the new voters list....

Earn votes with love, service and not more than Rs 1.5m

Following Supreme Court’s directive, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday announced a new code of conduct for holding elections in the country,...

Iraq PM’s rivals lack votes to oust him: president

Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki called for a national dialogue Sunday after President Jalal Talabani said his rivals lacked the votes to oust him, but...

Apathy or ignorance

At the end of one week, only 62,000 votes have been cast in the KBD referendum out of the millions who have access to...

Candidate with 50% votes should win: CJP

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhamamd Chaudhry remarked on Monday that only the candidates who win at least 50 percent of the votes in the elections...

Thousands of bogus votes pointed out in Balochistan

Thousands of bogus votes have been pointed out in preliminary electoral rolls jointly prepared by NADRA and ECP for Balochistan and five teachers, who...

Putin wins Kremlin with almost 64% of vote: results

Russian leader Vladimir Putin crushed his rivals in presidential elections with almost 64 percent of the vote, according to results published Monday based on...

A good lawyer enjoys a good feast before he votes…

What a day it was for the Lahore High Court Bar as lawyers from far flung areas poured into Lahore to cast votes, meet...

Fazl claims 35m bogus votes exist

Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Fazlur Rehman on Thursday alleged there were 35 million bogus voters in electoral lists and the anomaly had to...