report in Daily Times, Dec 30. 2023 PML-N’s Shehbaz, GDA chief, announce consensus on a four-party seat adjustment formula involvingMQM-P and JUI-F Former PM urges joint efforts to address Karachi woesThe Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) have agreed to support each other in the upcoming general elections. The development came during a meeting between PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif and GDA chief Pir Pagara, with Khawaja Saad Rafique and Ayaz Sadiq…
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by Amna Ali in The Express Tribune, Dec 30, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday decided to challenge the decision of the Peshawar High Court, which suspended the declaration of PTI’s internal polls as “unconstitutional” and the revocation of the party’s ‘cricket bat’ electoral symbol. Sources indicate that the ECP plans to file an intra-court appeal in the PHC challenging the decision of its single-judge bench. In the event of no relief,…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Dec 27, 2023The Election Commission (EC) has decided to cancel candidacy as a punishment for violating the electoral code of conduct. An official order has been issued to returning officers to take steps in this regard. So far, the commission has issued 258 show-cause notices to candidates based on the Election Inquiry Committee’s report. Among them, 92 candidates are nominated by the ruling party Awami League, and 53 candidates are current…
By Waseem Ahmad Shah in Dawn, December 27th, 2023PESHAWAR: In another legal victory for the PTI, the Peshawar High Court on Tuesday suspended an order of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), which had declared the former ruling party’s intra-party polls ‘void’ and revoked its electoral symbol last week. Justice Kamran Hayat Miankhel pronounced a short order on a petition, jointly filed by PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali and six other leaders, requesting the court…
Report in The Nation, Dec 20, 2023LAHORE – Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Quaid Nawaz Sharif asserted on Tuesday that the country was flourishing in 2017 but a ‘selected’ prime minister was installed the following year through electoral manipulation. Speaking at a parliamentary board meeting in Lahore, the former prime minister expressed concern that the nation had paid a heavy price due to the selection of an undeserving individual for the prime ministerial position. Nawaz…
report in Prothom Alo, Dec 17, 2023The acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Movement (BNM), Shah Muhammad Abu Zafar, has said they joined the election with the assurance of a free and fair election. If the election does not seem free and fair or they do not see an electoral environment, the BNM will pull out of the electoral race. The BNM chief made the statement while talking to the media at Madhukhali of Faridpur…
by Wajih Ahmad Sheikh in Dawn, December 8th, 2023LAHORE: Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday petitioned the Lahore High Court challenging his five-year disqualification in the Toshakhana case by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the cancellation of PTI’s party polls held last year. In the petition, the former prime minister, presently confined at Adiala Jail, said the National Assembly speaker forwarded a reference against Mr Khan in August last year, alleging…
by Mansoor Malik in Dawn, December 7th, 2023LAHORE: In a ‘historic’ political development on Wednesday, PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif visited PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain at his Lahore residence and both parties agreed to prepare proposals for an electoral alliance in the upcoming Feb 8 elections as well as long-term political relationship. Nawaz Sharif visited Mr Hussain 15 years after the latter had parted ways with the PML-N and joined former army chief and military…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 5, 2023LAHORE: Setting the stage for an electoral alliance, PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday met to actualise their seat-adjustment strategy and other joint electoral initiatives, including making a foray into Sindh through MQM-P’s aid. The high-profile gathering, held at the PML-N Secretariat located in Lahore’s Model Town, marked the second meeting between the political heavyweights since Nawaz’s return to the country on…
Report in Dawn, December 5th, 2023PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has ruled out possibility of forming electoral alliance with any political party for upcoming general polls to be held on February 8. He said that JI could not make alliance with those, who had destroyed the national institutions. He said that the three political parties were groomed in military nurseries and wasted 40 years of nation. According to a statement, he was addressing a convention…