The 2009 General election is going to witness a dawn of professional politics where political parties will be marketed as commodities to lure potential voters. It will not be merely a traditional competition between Congress …

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan Federal Secretary Kanwar Muhammad Dilshad has said that total 192 candidates submitted their papers for the Senate polls to be held on March 4. Addressing a press conference here on …

ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Board of Pakistan Peoples Party, which met at Bilawal House Karachi today with Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari in chair announced the PPPP candidates for the Senate elections to be held on March …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commission (CEC) Justice (Retd) Qazi Muhammad Farooq set up Appellate Authorities to conduct hearing of the applications against the rejection of the nomination papers of the candidates for the Senate elections.
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LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League- Q (PML-Q) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain set up 17-member Central Parliamentary Board under 52 article of the constitution. The board will decide the final list of the PML-Q candidates for the upcoming …

CANBERRA: The Australian Federal Government will provide $5 million to support Afghanistan elections in 2009/10. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made the announcement after returning from Afghanistan where he met with Australian troops deployed in the …

Polling for the presidential election will be held today. The contest will be between Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan Peoples Party, retired Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui of Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Mushahid Hussain Syed of …

KABUL: President Hamid Karzai has said he will contest the coming election to fulfill his agenda for the betterment and development of his impoverished country, hit by decades of strife and continuing Taliban-linked violence. “Yes, …

ISLAMABAD: Vice Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement (JKSM) and senior leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Altaf Ahmad Bhat has congratulated the newly elected Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Abdur Rashid Turabi who has been …

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 …