By Asim Yasin in The News, November 28, 2023ISLAMABAD: The political and electoral dialogue committee of the Pakistan People’s party has decided to make contacts with all the political figures of the national and provincial levels and assigned important tasks to the committee members to schedule meetings with national and provincial personalities for possibilities of electoral seat adjustment. The meeting of the dialogue committee of the PPP was held with the chair of Secretary General…
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report in The Express Tribune, November 28th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: The Federal Ministry of Interior has cautioned both illegal and legal Afghan migrants to refrain from supporting or funding any candidate for political or electoral activities in Pakistan. It has warned that a violation of this order will lead to deportation of that individual regardless of their legal status.A statement issued by the ministry on Monday said it is illegal for an Afghan national to support or…
REPORT IN THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, NOV 15, 2023KARACHI: Former president Asif Ali Zardari has shrugged off concerns about emerging alliances aimed at challenging his party’s dominance in the upcoming Feb 8 general elections. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Zardari said he was confident that PPP would secure victories across the nation in the upcoming polls while disregarding the electoral alliances marshalled against the party to put a dent in its electoral prospects. The PPP…
Report in Pakistan Today, Oct 21, 2023ISLAMABAD: Dispelling the impression of a delay in elections, Caretaker Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murtaza Solangi said on Friday that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was performing its duty diligently to further electoral process in a responsible way. The minister was talking to private television channels in two separate programmes on current affairs. He said the ECP had already announced that the election would be held by…
Report in The News, Sept 12th, 2023ISLAMABAD: As the matter of the general elections in the country hangs in the balance with the political circles divided on the timing of the polls, President Arif Alvi is expected to announce the date for the electoral process anytime, sources privy to the development said on Monday. They said that the matter of the poll date was discussed in a meeting of President Alvi with the caretaker law…
report in The Island, Sept 8, 2023Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, in an interview with Sirasa TV on Wednesday night, said that she would have gone for a general election if she had been in President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s shoes. She said that Wickremesinghe did not go for an election because he feared defeat.Wickremesinghe had been able to halt the rapid decline of the country but he was unable to move forth because he worked with…
by Priyan De Silva in The Island, Mar 17, 2023Executive Director of the Institute of Democratic Reforms and Electoral Studies Manjula Gajanayake says political parties are bent on preventing the election of women local councils.Gajanayake said the sitting female councillors were not allowed to contest their wards and they were placed on the additional list or made to contest other wards or simply denied nominations. Executive Director of the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections…
by Tika R Pradhan in the Kathmandu Post, Feb 26, 2023Two former Speakers, who are also active politicians of the country’s two biggest electoral forces, filed their nominations on Saturday for the March 9 presidential election. With the two previous Presidents courting controversy for trying to exercise ‘extra-constitutional’ powers, what the country really needs is a President who is broadly accepted, who can play a neutral role, and who can act as a true guardian…