MANDI BAHAUDDINAbandoning tribal politics, voters of NA-108 and its corresponding provincial constituencies PP-116, PP-117 and PP-120, have elected candidates, having no roots in predominant clans of the area. Ijaz Chaudhry, newly MNA-elect from NA-108, is Gujar by cast and originally belong to ...

                      PESHAWAR - Voters took revenge from outgoing government and incoming government must be mindful of the fact that it has been mandated to meet public expectations, stated the Peshawar High ...

DASKAThe PML-N candidates have got a historical victory in Daska tehsil during the May 11 general elections, proving that the Daska is their party’s stronghold and none of the PTI, PPP and PML-Q could get victories here, as per unofficial results. One National Assembly constituency (NA 113 ...

DASKA - The PML-N candidates have got a historical victory in Daska tehsil during the May 11 general elections, proving that the Daska is their party’s stronghold and none of the PTI, PPP and PML-Q could get victories here, as per unofficial results. One National Assembly constituency (NA 113 ...

lahorePML-Q President Ch Shujat Hussain has said that the election results in Punjab are contrary to the expectations of millions of voters whereas senior central leader and former deputy prime minister Ch Pervaiz Elahi has thanked the people of the area for vigorously supporting him and Moonis ...

islamabad - Tens of hundreds of residents of cantonment on Saturday faced a lot of difficulties while exercising their right of franchise for electing their representative for the seat of NA-54 owing to carelessness of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).The voters, who turned out in massive ...

LAHORE  - The Punjab Government has decided to set up helpdesks on the election day at a distance of 400 meters from the polling stations where arrangements will be made for safekeeping of mobile phones of voters.  It may be mentioned that Election Commission of Pakistan has imposed a ban ...

In an emergency press conference Saturday, the Jamaat-e-Islami announced that it was boycotting elections in protest against what they called the threatening and scaring of voters in several constituencies of Karachi and Hyderabad.Party chief Syed Munawar Hasan, accompanied by former Mayor of ...

HAFIZABAD Round-the-clock efforts are being made by the contestants to woo electorates for ensuring their victory in the upcoming election. The arch rivals in the general election Ch Afzal Hussain Tarar of PML-N and Ch Mehdi Hassan Bhatti of independent group (both were not contesting the election ...

JHANG siddiq SadiqElectioneering is in full swing here as all the candidates have finalised their panels and every one of them is claiming to be in a position to get victory by defeating his opponents while the former lawmakers who forgot the voters after elections are facing public wrath here ...

ISLAMABAD - Printing of 180 million ballot papers will be completed by Tuesday while the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would inaugurate e-ticket service today to educate voters about their polling stations and voting serial numbers through their mobile phones.Talking to media persons here ...

It is sad to see the increasing percentage of target killing in Karachi. The people who die are common motor mechanics, labourers, masons, workers, pedestrians, all innocent peoples. Millions of people are dying in a year, but the authorities have failed to control these killings. It seems that the ...

LAHORE - From “Roti, Kapra and Makan” (bread, cloth and shelter) to “Jaag Punjabi Jaag, Teri Pag Wich Lag Gya Daag” (Wake up Punjabi as your turban is stained), the slogans have always been used to exploit or attract the voters in political history of the country. With the ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced to introduce E-Ticket Service from Monday under which voters can inquire about their constituency and details of polling stations.Election Commission spokesman Khurshid Alam said voters could send their Computerized National Identity Card ...

Swing voter is a floating voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can impact the outcome of an election one way or the other. Swing voters occasionally play an important part in elections. In Pakistan, millions of youth voters have been registered and ...

I want to draw the kind attention of the Chief Election Commissioner to the problems which old aged voters will be facing during elections, in casting their vote. Although their number may be around 28 percent, their votes are as valuable and important as anyone else’s. They are important ...

ISLAMABAD  - National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) said here on Friday that final electoral rolls (FER) 2012 had been dispatched to Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Sindh, Punjab, and Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata).According to Nadra, a total of 86,189,751 ...

QUETTA - Voters would be given complete security on the polling day, Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Ghaus Bakhsh Barozai said on Monday, exhorting the masses to come forward and use their franchise right without any fear. Interacting with a group of reporters after a meeting with Jamiat ...

KARACHI – Speaker of the outgoing Sindh Assembly, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, said on Sunday the decision of the Election Commission of Pakistan regarding imposing a ban on providing voters a free transport will create hindrances and result in a low turnout on polling day.In a statement, Khuhro said ...

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement senior leader Haider Abbas Rizvi on Friday advised the voters to exercise their right of franchise in the general election-2013 in favour of honest middle or lower-middle-class candidates in their respective constituencies.The former Member of the National ...

QUETTA - Interim Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khosa has directed the provincial government to ensure foolproof security for the leaders of political parties and voters besides taking steps to hold free, fair and transparent elections.He also directed the provincial government to accelerate pace of ...

Caretaker Prime Minister, Mir Hazar Khan Khoso on Wednesday directed the provincial government to ensure foolproof security for the leaders of political parties and voters besides taking steps for holding free, fair and transparent elections.He made these remarks while talking to the Governor ...

ISLAMABAD – Non-Muslim voters comprise more than 10,000 votes in 98 seats of the National Assembly, given a small margin of victory in past general elections, these votes could play a decisive role in favor of any candidate. However, no attention is being paid by candidates to woo the ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the interim government in Balochistan and law-enforcement agencies to take steps for protection of voters and election candidates, so that the general elections could be held in a peaceful manner.A two-judge bench of Gulzar Ahmed and Sheikh Azmat ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters/AFP) - Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu narrowly won an election in which disgruntled voters catapulted a new centrist challenger into second place and he now faces the daunting task of building a coalition.Tuesday's vote crystallised demands for attention to bread-and-butter ...

CAIRO  - Egypt’s electoral commission confirmed on Tuesday that a controversial, Islamist-backed constitution was passed by 64 percent of voters, rejecting opposition allegations of polling fraud.Those official results tallied with figures given by President Mohamed Mursi’s Muslim ...

ISLAMABAD - The electoral body has issued timetable for voters’ verification in Karachi division, a press release said Friday.The preparation for voters’ verification process started with effect from December 17 and the verification drive would be completed by February 24 next year ...

Swiss voters rejected a proposal to increase employees’ annual minimum paid vacation entitlement to six from four weeks on Sunday after firms warned it might hurt competitiveness and threaten jobs. The initiative was put forward by trade union Travail.Suisse, which argued that four ...

PTI central leader Makhdoom Javed Hashmi said Friday that his party will again challenge incorrect voter lists in the Supreme Court."How transparent general elections would take place as the Election Commission (EC) has failed to hold fair by-polls,"Hashmi said while talking to mediamen at Allama ...

LAHORE – Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf leader and former provincial minister Abdul Aleem Khan while talking to TheNation has said that his party will win the coming elections provided the Nadra record be converted into voters’ lists. He said that Pakistanis did not like politics because ...