Politics

Women Professionals Form Body for Political Representation

Women lawmakers, civil society members, media professionals, and government staff have formed a movement to back women's rights in the upcoming presidential election, beginning with a proposal to parliament on securing gender quotas for women candida...

Musharraf nomination for Chitral accepted, rejected in Karachi

KARACHI: Candidature of Pakistan’s former strongman Pervez Musharraf for a Karachi constituency was rejected while his candidacy for a Chitral National Assembly constituency was accepted on Sunday, media reported. According to reports, the nomination...

PPP’s Imtiaz Safdar Waraich candidacy rejected

GUJRANWALA: A Returning Officer on Saturday rejected nomination papers of Imtiaz Safdar Waraich, former state ministers for interior affairs and ex Pakistan People’s Party Punjab President, for NA-98 Gujranwal. His candidacy was rejected over an obje...

Musharraf nomination for Karachi NA-250 rejected

KARACHI: Candidature of Pakistan’s former strongman Pervez Musharraf for a Karachi constituency has been rejected, media reported. According to reports, the nomination papers of the former military dictator, who returned to Pakistan on March 24 to ta...

Hina Khar decides not to contest on general seat

KARACHI: Former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar has decided not to contest on general seat in upcoming elections, media reported. Sources said Hina’s father Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar would run for general seat from her constituency, however, she wo...

15586 polling stations to be set up in Sindh

KARACHI: As many as 15586 polling stations will be set up for the upcoming general elections on 61 National Assembly and 130 provincial assembly seats in Sindh. According to the Election Commission Sindh, 4501 polling booths would be set up in the fi...

ECP completes scrutiny of approximately 20,844 nomination papers

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has to conduct scrutiny of approximately 3,250 remaining nomination papers on last day today (Sunday), media reported. The commission has received a total of 24,094 nomination papers, which is a re...

Protecting democracy judiciary’s constitutional duty: CJ

TANDO ADAM: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Saturday said it is the lawful and constitutional responsibility of the judiciary to safeguard the democratic system any misuse. “To fulfill its role, the judiciary enjoys backing of lawyers, civil...

HRCP sees systematic sabotage of democratic process

KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious concern over systematic attempts to exclude candidates from elections and to sabotage people's ability to elect candidates of their choice or to hold them to account. In a ...

No alliance with any party: Imran

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said Saturday that his party would not form an alliance with political party. Imran added that the PTI did not have a militant wing and that change in Pakistan could only come through electi...

ECP receives record 24,094 nominations

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has received a total of 24,094 nomination papers, which is a record in Pakistan’s election history. The ECP finally completed receipt of nomination papers from 425 returning officers (ROs) across t...

NA-56 Rawalpindi: Imran Khan’s nomination papers accepted

RAWALPINID: The nomination papers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan have been accepted from NA-56 Rawalpindi. Nomination papers of Hanif Abbasi, a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz candidate in NA-56, have also been accepted. A Returning Off...

Presidency dismisses Shahbaz Sharif’s claims

ISLAMABAD: Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar dismissed allegations leveled by Shahbaz Sharif that the Presidency was behind any move to get him declared as loan defaulter and thus ineligible to contest elections. In a statement issued here on ...

Shekih Waqas Akram, Yasir Raza degrees fake: HEC

ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) in a letter to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has stated that the A-Level certificate of former Federal Minister Sheikh Waqas Akram and FA degree of former Punjab Assembly Member Yasir Raza ...

ECP accepts Nawaz’s nomination papers from NA-68 Sargodha

SARGODHA: The nomination papers of PML-N President Nawaz Sharif from NA-68 have been accepted b the Returning Officer (RO). Earlier, objections against Nawaz Sharif’s nomination papers for the Sargodha constituency were raised over allegations of the...

Imran wants army deployment at sensitive polling stations

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan says the army should be deployed to sensitive polling stations for the upcoming general elections. While speaking to the media outside Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Khan said he ...

Pir Pagara says will support Shah Mehmood in polls

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi met Pakistan Muslim League- Functional chief Pir Pagara here on Saturday. Pir Pagara assured the PTI leader of his support during election. It is to mention here that Qureshi has su...

Ruling reserved over objection to Imran’s nomination papers

RAWALPINID: A Returning Officer on Saturday reserved ruling on objections to the nomination papers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan in NA-56 Rawalpindi. The ruling was reserved after the applicant and counsel for Khan concluded their a...

Seminar held on code of conduct for political parties

ISLAMABAD: The Jinnah Institute, with the support of the Asia Foundation on Friday organized a seminar regarding the recently promulgated code of conduct for political parties. The participants on this occasion gave their opinion and declared it a si...

Faryal Talpur’s nomination paper in absentia approved

LARKANA: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate, Faryal Talpur’s nomination paper for Larkana NA-207 has been approved despite not being present before the Returning Officer on Saturday here, media reported. It may be recalled that Larkana NA-207 ha...

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