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PMLN starts process for general elections today:

Report in The News, November 01, 2023LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) has decided to start the process for general elections from Wednesday (today) and will seek applications for seats of national and provincial assemblies till November 10. The last date for submitting applications for national and provincial constituencies would be November 10, said PMLN Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal while talking to the media at Jati Umra on Tuesday after a grand consultative session of…

ECP may give poll schedule before delimitation ends

by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, August 30th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is likely to announce a schedule for the general elections well before the completion of delimitation of constituencies of national and provincial assemblies, informed sources told Dawn. They said a decision on this would not take months or weeks, but days. They said the issue was discussed during the commission’s consultative meeting with the PPP on a roadmap to the…

Minorities seek end to reserved seats in assemblies

Report in Dawn, February 27th, 2023PESHAWAR: Members of the minority communities demonstrated here on Sunday to demand right to directly elect their representatives to the assemblies. The protesters, who gathered outside the Peshawar Press Club, were led by office-bearers of Minorities Alliance of Pakistan (MAP). The protest leaders said they did not expect any good from their MPAs and MNAs as they were sent to assemblies on reserved seats, and thus didn’t have to be…

Dissolution questions

Editorial in The News, Nov 29th, 2022It is obvious that PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s announcement that the PTI will be leaving all assemblies came as a surprise to all. But after a whole day having passed since the gauntlet was thrown, both the PTI and the sitting PDM government seem to have gone a bit quiet. Imran’s ‘political masterstroke’ per some analysts has also been seen with scepticism by other political observers who say this…