by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, December 9th, 2023• Interior minister highlights ‘general threat’ to politicians, but ‘specific alert’ for FazlISLAMABAD: Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Ahmed Bugti emphasised the government’s readiness to ensure peaceful general elections but at the same time acknowledged the terrorist threats faced by political leaders in the run-up to the February polls. Speaking at a press conference in Islamabad, Mr Bugti highlighted a general threat to political figures, with a specific…
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by Javid ur Rahman in The Nation, Dec 9, 2023ISLAMABAD – The top election body has rejected Akbar S. Babar’s appeal for the re-conduct of the recently conducted intra-party elections of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). The ECP’s five-member bench led by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja announced this decision after hearing the case. The bench heard a series of petitions filed by PTI founding members Akbar S. Babar, Tahir Nawaz, Noreen Farooq, and others,…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The PTI’s recently-held intra-party elections were thrust into uncertainty on Friday after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued the party a notice on a plea seeking to have the polls declared null and void. A five-member bench, presided over by the chief election commissioner, held a preliminary hearing on 14 applications, seeking nullification of PTI’s intra-party elections. In the hearing, estranged PTI founding member Akbar S…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, Dec 8th, 2023• CEC says printing, delivery of final electoral rolls completed• Judiciary refuses to spare officers for poll duty• DROs, ROs to be selected soon from among district administration officials ISLAMABAD: With the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) all set to unveil schedule for the Feb 8 polls next week, Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja on Thursday said printing and delivery of final electoral rolls had successfully…
by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, Dec 8th, 2023LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is wary of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) dominance on social media platforms, but it asserts that it may not have an impact on the polls, which will be contested on the ground. “The PTI invested in social media over the last 15 years, and we lagged behind. What is happening in cyberspace is not on the streets. The elections will be held…
By Asim Yasin in The News, December 07, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party Information Secretary Faisal Karim Kundi has said those who are afraid of people’s decision do not want elections. “In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, there is a Maulana Fazlur Rehman government and we don’t know what kind of favourable environment they want,” he said while commenting on JUIF Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday. Kundi said the opponents were worried about the…
by Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Dec 5, 2023ISLAMABAD – The beleaguered Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday decided to speed up its political activities countrywide and special instructions were issued to the party’s Punjab chapter to start preparations for holding workers’ conventions across the province after such “successful” gatherings in Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The PTI Core Committee in a meeting congratulated all the party’s officials including the newly elected Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan for…
By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, Dec 5, 2023The rebel SLPP group yesterday (04) accused President Ranil Wickremesinghe of trying to bring the legislature under his control ahead of presidential and parliamentary polls scheduled for 2024 and 2025. Addressing the weekly media briefing at Nawala, top Opposition spokesperson and former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris alleged that Wickremesinghe’s recent threat to appoint a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to ascertain the status of the Constitutional…
by Amna Ali in The Express Tribune, Dec 5, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) requested on Monday the federal government for the deployment of Pakistan Army and the civil armed forces personnel at polling stations during the upcoming general elections on February 8. The request, made through a letter addressed to Federal Interior Secretary Aftab Akbar Durrani, invoked Article 220 of the Constitution, emphasising the duty of all executive authorities to support the…
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…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 4th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: The PTI has managed to complete the process of its intra-party elections, but in its haste, it has failed to meet several legal requirements of the polls. According to legal experts, Akbar S Babar, a PTI founding member who later developed differences with former party chief Imran Khan, has been given the best opportunity to challenge the polls because of the several flaws in the process. As…