KHAR: Political and religious parties and candidates for two National Assembly constituencies in Bajaur Agency, NA-43 and NA-44, have agreed to encourage local women to cast vote on May 11.The agreement came during a meeting here on Wednesday. Jamaat-i-Islami, Fata chief Sahibzada Haroonur Rasheed, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader and candidate for NA-44 Shahabuddin Khan, Jamiat […]
THE Election Commission of Pakistan’s launch of the revamped ‘e-ticket’ service on Monday is welcome news in a pre-election landscape marked mostly by negativity and violence. Now, by sending his or her CNIC number via mobile phone text message to 8300, a voter can obtain information such as the location of their polling station, block […]
LAHORE: The upcoming elections are not the first that have been boycotted by the Ahmedis rather these are the eighth consecutive polls being boycotted by the minority community. Historically, the Ahmedis have not taken part in any election at any level after they were declared non-Muslims in the constitution in 1974. They boycotted the general […]
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has sought comments from a leading mobile phone company on a complaint filed by the chairman of the Central Election Monitoring Cell of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N, Senator Ishaq Dar that its funds have been allocated for promoting and funding the poll campaign of a […]
Tahir Khalil ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has ordered the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to stop forthwith the ad of a telephonic conversation between Justice (retd) Malik Qayyum and Saifur Rehman running on the media against the PML-N.While taking notice of the running of this ad against Nawaz League, the ECP […]
ON March 31, in an unprecedented move two women — Badam Zari from Bajaur and Nusrat Begum from Lower Dir — filed nomination papers for the election. A former district vice president with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Nusrat Begum is the first woman candidate from Lower Dir, a district where women voters were often barred in […]
ISLAMABAD: In an attempt to make things more coordinated between the Election Commission of Pakistan and the media, the electoral body on Tuesday appointed a focal person who will now be the link between the ECP and the media. The ECP has also barred its officials from giving statements directly to the media. The move […]
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked regulators of electronic and print media to ensure compliance of its directive requiring media houses to provide details of political advertisements aired and published by them. The commission had issued the directive on March 26 seeking details of all paid and unpaid political advertisements and other […]
By: Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD: The details submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in their nomination papers by candidates for National Assembly seats reserved for women from Punjab reveal some interesting facts about their assets and sources of income. A careful study of some prominent women candidates, who were also members of the previous […]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim has strictly directed all the ECP officials not to issue any statement to electronic or print media. In this connection, the CEC Tuesday issued a special notification barring the ECP officials from giving press statements and appearing before the electronic and print media. The CEC made it […]
Mehtab Haider ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has developed a software that will be provided to 500 returning officers for sharing the exact vote count of candidates from each polling station all over the country soon after the counting process is completed. “It will help ensure free and fair elections in the country […]
Sajjad Haider KARACHI: The Election Commission has rejected the nomination papers of renowned columnist and Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ayaz Amir ‘for writing against the ideology of Pakistan’ in his columns. District Returning Officer (DRO) Ch Anwer Ahmed Khan also summoned Amir to appear before court by April 6. Eyewitnesses said local […]
Sikander Shaheen ISLAMABAD – The Election Commission of Pakistan has suggested a ‘code of ethics’ for media for the coverage of the general elections. The code of ethics is prepared following creation of a Media Accountability Commission by the Supreme Court that gave its recommendations to the ECP on Tuesday. The code is prepared in […]
ISLAMABAD: Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan Ishtiq Khan said on Wednesday that code of conduct covering the upcoming general election 2013 to ensure dissemination of credible and unbiased news has been finalized. Addressing a press conference he said,”It is very encouraging as first time in the history of the country media representatives forwarded their suggestions […]
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