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District profile: Ruling party faces strong anti-PPP alliance in Dadu

12 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
Dawn

DADU: Like elsewhere in the province, the ruling party faces an exclusively anti-Pakistan Peoples Party alliance in Dadu as well but what makes this alliance of four parties relatively strong is the inclusion of the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) headed by the influential Liaquat Ali Jatoi, while the situation in Jamshoro appears to be business as usual with little opposition against PPP diehard Malik Asad Sikandar and his nominees.

PPP grabbed 70pc LG seats in eight districts of Sindh: ECP

11 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
Dawn

KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party swept the first phase of the local government election in eight districts of Sindh by winning about 70 per cent of the over 3,500 seats, it emerged on Tuesday.

On Oct 31, the LG elections were held for a total of 3,502 seats of chairman, vice chairman, district and general councillors in Sukkur, Ghotki, Khairpur, Larkana, Jacobabad, Shikarpur, Kashmore and Kambar-Shahdadkot districts.

DROs, police want army deployment during LG polls: ECP secretary

10 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
Dawn

HYDERABAD: The Secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan, Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad, has said all district returning officers (DROs) and police authorities want deployment of army in the second phase of local government elections in Sindh.

He said that more than the required number of security personnel could be sought for deployment to ensure violence-free elections in the province. He urged all stakeholders to assist the ECP in holding fair polls in line with constitutional responsibilities.

Above the law: Candidates with criminal records elected in Sukkur

10 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
The Express Tribune
SUKKUR: 

Eight of the 18 candidates belonging to the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) who won the recent local government elections in Sukkur have criminal and corruption cases lodged against them.

 

In fact, one of the candidates — Ashfaq Mirani, who has been elected as chairperson of the union committee 24 of Bachal Shah Miani — is a notified criminal with Rs500,000 as head money. In fact, his photo, along with those of other similar candidates, was posted on a billboard outside A-Section police station, until a few days ago.

 

Sisters are doing it for themselves

09 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
The Express Tribune

KARACHI: Pakistan’s is for all purposes a patriarchal society. It is a system where women are only allowed minimal input in the decision-making process. There are deviations, off course. We did elect the first woman head of state among Muslim countries. On the whole, however, the situation is still quite grim.

LG elections: Political parties form alliance against PPP

07 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
The Express Tribune

HYDERABAD: The local chapters of the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Dadu district have joined hands to contest the local government elections against the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). The alliance, announced at a press conference in Dadu on Thursday, also includes the PPP-Shaheed Bhutto (PPP-SB) and Awami Ittehad Party (AIP).

Repeating history? JI, PTI form alliance for second round of LG elections

07 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
The Express Tribune
KARACHI: 

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) have announced their alliance on more than 80 per cent of the city’s seats for the third round of the local bodies’ polls.

“Karachi has been held hostage by political forces for years, which have never contributed towards the development of the city, but this time, the popularity of PTI and the strength of JI will win the local bodies poll,” said JI’s Karachi ameer, Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Friday.

Rangers chief meets MQM and JI delegations ahead of LG polls

06 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
Dawn

KARACHI: Delegations of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Jamaat-i-Islami called on the Rangers director general on Thursday and discussed issues relating to the Karachi operation and the upcoming local government elections.

Despite having their own media wings, neither the MQM nor the JI issued any official statement regarding the meeting of their respective delegations with Major General Bilal Akbar, the director general of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh.

Rangers at sensitive polling stations, army on standby on 19th: Khuhro

06 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
Dawn

KARACHI: Senior Information Minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that the Rangers will be posted at sensitive and extremely sensitive polling stations in the second phase of local government elections, scheduled for Nov 19, while the Sindh government will request the Election Commission to ensure that army troops stay on standby.

LG polls: What led to PTI’s defeat

04 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
Dawn

LAHORE: Lack of a vigorous campaign unlike the one for NA-122, no criteria for selection of candidates, politics of confrontation and infighting are among the factors that led to the debacle of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the first phase of local body elections in the city on Oct 31, reveal background interviews with party leaders.

Leaders, both provincial and local, admitted the PTI could not run an effective campaign as it had for the by-election in NA-122.

PTI rejects local poll results

03 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
Dawn

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) set the tone for some more bitter and confrontational politics when it rejected the results of the first phase of the local government elections in Punjab and Sindh.

“The election was a fraud,” said PTI chairman’s political adviser Ejaz Chaudhry, dispelling expectations of some calm returning to national politics.

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