The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader and former federal minister Abdul Qadir Baloch has suggested postponing elections in areas that are under security threat, saying that by-polls could be held in these constituencies later, Dawn News reported on Sunday.
This allocation supplements the PKR 10 billion released in July 2023, bringing the total funds disbursed for the polls to PKR 27.4 billion, as indicated by the Finance Ministry.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), in a letter to the Sindh government, asked the Balochistan chief secretary to immediately reshuffle the additional chief secretary and three other senior officials of the province, The News International reported.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday announced that it has scheduled a meeting with political parties in October to discuss the code of conduct for elections, which it expects to hold in January, Pakistan-based Dawn reported.
In August last year, the electoral watchdog issued notices to Fawad Chaudhry and others for allegedly using "intemperate" language against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikander Sultan Raja and the electoral body, ARY News reported.
The ECP issued the directions in a letter sent by Secretary Omar Hamid Khan on behalf of the election organising authority to the interim chief minister.
Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar confirmed on Sunday that the Election Act 2017 is set to be amended in order to empower the upcoming caretaker government to take important decisions until a democratically elected government takes over.
The Election Commission of Pakistan has passed an order to remove the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) caretaker Transport Minister for violating the electoral body’s code of conduct.
The deadline for submitting party tickets and receiving symbol allotments for candidates seeking to run in the Punjab Assembly elections was extended by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday, Geo News reported.
This comes after the Pakistan Supreme Court's (SC) directives that the elections be held on May 14 instead of the previously notified date of October 8.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will on Sunday evening hold a meeting to choose Punjab's caretaker chief minister, the Dawn reported, adding that the meeting was necessitated as the bi-partisan parliamentary committee established by the Speaker of the Punjab Assembly speaker failed