report in Dawn, December 26th, 2023BAJAUR: Jamaat-i-Islami senior leader Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan on Monday demanded a level playing field for all political parties in the run-up to the Feb 8 general elections to ensure the free, fair and transparent electoral exercise. “Some parties are denied their constitutional right of level playing field ahead of elections – an act totally wrong and undemocratic,” Mr Khan told a convention of his party’s workers in Barikoo area…
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by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, Nov 20, 2023ISLAMABAD: Dismissing complaints of no “level playing field”, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday that the environment in the country is not only conducive for general elections, it is also moving towards transparent polls. Expressing complete faith in the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) duty to conduct fair elections, the former president claimed that the PPP is the only party capable…
report in The Express Tribune, Nov 12th, 2023.LAHORE: In response to a joint condemnation by Caretaker Information Minister Murtaza Solangi and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) regarding President Dr Arif Alvi’s initiative to convey Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) concerns about an alleged ‘lack of a level-playing field’ ahead of the polls to the interim government, the former ruling party on Saturday strongly criticised the characterisation of the president’s statement as contrary to the Constitution. In…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, August 25th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Thursday held out the assurance that transparent polls would be conducted in the country ‘as soon as possible’ and level playing field would be provided to all political parties to take part in the democratic exercise. The assurance came during the first consultative session held with political parties on the roadmap to elections with Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja…
Report in TOLOnews Online, May 24, 2023 at 9:58 PMThe Iranian Minister of Interior, Ahmad Wahidi, at a public forum rejected the statements of Islamic Emirate authorities about the lack of water in the Helmand River and said that the existing reports are “contrary to the claims made, and that is why the officials’ field visit is proposed and if there is no water, the issue will be resolved.” The tension between Kabul and Tehran…