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The Election Commission has requested Pakistan Army to deploy military on sensitive and most sensitive polling stations on polling day. The Election Commission extended the request in a meeting with army officials in Rawalpindi on Tuesday. By-polling will be held on August 22 after Eid. Meanwhile‚ the Election commission has sought report from Returning Officers […]
Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim on Thursday said that the Election Commission will give the country fair elections if security is ensured. “You provide us improved law and order, we will give you free, fair and transparent elections”, he told a news conference in Islamabad. He said the maintenance of law and […]
Pakistan said Friday that concurrence of seven host governments has been received for the conduct of polling for overseas Pakistanis. Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhary said at the weekly news briefing in Islamabad that the Election Commission had short-listed nine countries where polling could be held. The spokesman said concurrence from Saudi […]
Tahir-ul-Qadri, chief of Pakistan Awami Tehrik, who led a Long March on Islamabad last month, to press for electoral reforms, has now moved the Supreme Court, seeking reconstitution of the Election Commission of Pakistan. Qadri’s latest move is also seen with suspicion as parliamentary elections are just few months away and major parties say […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that free and fair elections are not possible under President Asif Ali Zardari. While addressing a press conference today, he said that they have endured this government for 5 years and now it is elections time. He also said that his party does not want to […]
Extending his supports to the confirmation of voters’ lists and delimitation Karachi, Amir Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) Maulana Fazal Rahman has said that all parties in Karachi are unanimously for new demarcation of constituencies and door to door confirmation of voter lists in Karachi. He observed, “Only one party is opposing the demarcation of constituencies […]
Marc Zwiebler, who is top shuttler in Germany, played tremendous badminton in his first Men’s Singles battle in Group K and easily thrashed Maldives’ Rasheed Mohamed Ajfan at Olympic Games 2012 on July 28, at Wembley Arena, in London. The World Number 18 Zwiebler was on a different level as he was one class above […]
Our guilty Prime Minister The development that occurred in the Supreme Court on Monday was not much of a surprise. In its earlier rulings, the apex court had already opined that Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, prima facie, contemptuous of the court. The Monday’s hearing was only the next mechanical step in the clockwork; […]
After holding detailed negotiations, the government and opposition parties on Wednesday said to have broken the impasse on the 20th Amendment, claiming they had moved a step closer to reaching an accord. The two parties claimed that the stalemate, which has thus far prevented the presenting of the 20th amendment in parliament, had been broken […]
Chaudhry Nisar says PML-N will not support constitutional amendment In what appeared to be a quite shock to the government, opposition leader in the National Assembly (NA), Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, has ascertained that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) would not support any constitutional amendment. Speaking to the media in front of the Parliament House, […]
Senate elections on March 2 Amidst the rising tensions between different organs of state, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Thursday announced to hold the much-awaited Senate polls on March 2, 2012. A notification issued by the commission declared that 54 Senators, including four reserved seats for minorities, under the 18th amendment, will be elected […]
