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PPP announces party tickets for by-polls
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentary Board has announced party ticket allocation for three National Assembly Seats and 18 Provincial Assemblies’ seats from all four provinces of the country for the Bye-elections to be held on June 26, 2008. According to press release issued from the Press Office Zardari House on Thursday, the tickets were allocated [...]
Continue reading...EC announces schedule for bye-polls
24. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: The Chief Election Commissioner has announced schedule for bye-election to Punjab Assembly constituency PP-121 Sialkot-I, fallen vacant due to the death of Rana Tariq Mehmood MPA. The nomination papers can be filed from 26th to 31st of this month. Scrutiny of nomination papers will be held from 2nd to 4th of next month. Appeals [...]
Continue reading...Faryal Talpur elected as MNA unopposed
24. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has congratulated his aunt Faryal Talpur on being elected unopposed from the National Assembly constituency, NA 207 (Larkana cum Sikarpurr cum Kambar Shahdadkot). A statement issued by the Press office at Zardari House said that Faryal Talpur had taken over this constituency in the name of Mohtrama [...]
Continue reading...EC declares Maulana Atta-Ur-Rehman as successful
22. May 2008
ISLAMABAD): The Election Commission has issued notification of the victory of MMA candidate Maulana Atta-ur- Rehman. According to the notification issued on Thursday, the EC declared Maulana Atta-ur- Rehman victorious from NA-25 Tank. It may be recalled that Maulana Atta-ur- Rehman is brother of JUI Amir Maulana Fazalur Rehman and his opponent candidate Sardar Omar [...]
Continue reading...Q-league candidates challenge Sharifs’ papers
20. May 2008
RAWALPINDI: Muslim League-Q candidates have filed petitions in election tribunals against approval of nomination papers of Muslim League-N leaders Mian Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif from Rawalpindi. PML-Q candidates Raja Nasir and Malik Mehboob Elahi have filed petitions in the election tribunal comprises of Justice Mian Najam-uz-Zaman and Justice Tariq Shameem. The petitioners have pleaded [...]
Continue reading...EC announces tribunals to hear election appeals
20. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has announced election tribunals comprise of high court judges to hear appeals against decisions of returning officers for the bye-elections. Chief Election Commissioner has announced the election tribunals after approval by the president. According to a notification two tribunals have been established for election appeals in Punjab. The first [...]
Continue reading...Aitzaz announces to boycott by-polls
18. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Chaudhary Aitzaz Ehsan has announced to boycott by-elections being held next month. According to various news channels, the SCBA president was addressing a Press Conference in Lahore on Sunday. It may be noted that Ch. Aitzaz Ehsan had filed nomination papers for NA-55 Rawalpindi but he now announced [...]
Continue reading...Nawaz Sharif’s nomination papers accepted for Bye-polls
15. May 2008
Nawaz, Shahbaz, Aitzaz, Sh. Rashid nomination papers accepted; Nawaz to contest from NA-123; PML-N welcomes approval of Nawaz nomination papers LAHORE: The nomination papers of Pakistan Muslim League-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif, former Chief Minister of Punjab and PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif have been accepted. The scrutiny of nomination papers for bye-elections’ on [...]
Continue reading...Politics in Punjab, bye-Polls and meeting of MNAs of PPP
13. May 2008
Lahore: Provincial Election Commissioner Punjab says polling for the bye-election in the province will be held on six national and seventeen seats of Punjab Assembly on 26th of next month as earlier announced. Talking to an official channel correspondent Athar Rasool in Lahore today he said more than thirty five hundred polling stations and eight [...]
Continue reading...Nawaz to contest by-polls from NA-52
13. May 2008
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Quaid, Nawaz Sharif has filed his nomination papers for by-polls for the national assembly seat NA-52. Mian Nawaz Sharif had plan to contest the by-polls from the constituencies NA-52 and 55, however, he changed his mind as he submitted nomination papers for NA-52 only. ML-N workers in large numbers had [...]
Continue reading...Aitizaz to contest NA-55 on PPP ticket
9. May 2008
ISLAMABAD President Supreme Court Bar Association Barrister Aitizaz Ahsan would contest NA-55 seat in the June By-elections on Pakistan People Party ticket. According to party sources, a decision in this regard was taken here Friday. Popularity: 10% [?]
Continue reading...Bye-polls to be held on June 26
7. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: The Election commission has announced to hold the bye-elections on June 26 and the nomination papers can be submitted by May 13. Secretary Election Commission Kanwar Dilshad said that the bye-elections would be held throughout the country on June 26 while the last date for submitting the nomination papers is May 13. The nomination [...]
Continue reading...Bye-elections are postponed till August 18
5. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission has rescheduled the forthcoming bye-elections for the vacant seats of National and Provincial Assembly; the Election Commission has deferred bye-elections for a period of two months. According to Press release of the Election Commission, bye-polls would now be held on eighteenth of August instead of the eighteenth of June this year. [...]
Continue reading...Bye-elections: June 2 last date for submitting applications
1. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission has fixed June 2, as last date for receipt of applications for postal ballot papers for bye-elections to the National Assembly and the Provincial Assemblies. This facility is extended only to the persons in the government service, members of armed forces, holders of public offices, their wives and such of their children [...]
Continue reading...Removal of graduation condition to help contestants in by-election: AG
22. April 2008
LAHORE: Attorney General of Pakistan, Malik Muhammad Qayyum and other jurists have expressed consensus that persons who intend to contest by-election can benefit from the Supreme Court decision which has dispensed with the condition that a candidate should be a graduate. The Attorney General says the graduation condition impinges upon the fundamental rights of the [...]
Continue reading...EC decides reformation election rules
22. April 2008
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan has decided to introduce reforms in existing laws and election rules. Chief Election Commissioner retired Justice Qazi Muhammad Farooq has established an eight-member committee for reforms in electoral laws and rules and regulations. The electoral reforms committee will propose reforms in existing laws and election rules. A proposal on reforms [...]
Continue reading...SC declare graduation condition for polls invalid
21. April 2008
ISLAMABAD: The apex court of Pakistan has cancelled graduation condition for contesting elections. A bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan under chairmanship of Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar Monday declared the Graduation condition for candidates contesting elections to the National and Provincial Assemblies as invalid. The condition of graduation is in clash with the Article [...]
Continue reading...EU calls for independent EC
16. April 2008
ISLAMABAD: European Union (EU) had urged the government for establishing an independent Election Commission in Pakistan after seeking advice from all the parties, said the visiting Chief Observer of EU Mickael Gahler. Mickael Gahler said this on Wednesday in a meeting with the leaders of the ruling as well as opposition parties. He discussed with them [...]
Continue reading...Asif Ali Zardari Contest by-polls
16. April 2008
ISLAMABAD\:Co-Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari will contest by elections from constituency NA-207 while he will submit his nomination papers on April 20. Faryal Talpur would be his alternate candidate. The elections on constituency NA-207 were postponed after the assassination of late Former Prime Minister and Chairperson PPP Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi on December [...]
Continue reading...Election to Senate on May 3 and 6: EC
16. April 2008
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner Justice (Retd) Qazi Mohammad Farooq announced elections on five vacant seats of the Senate to be held on May 3 and 6. Chief Election Commissioner was addressing a news conference in which he announced that nomination papers will be submitted till April 21 and scrutiny of the papers will be held on [...]
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