World's leading rights group has warned against restriction over Internet freedom in Turkey, highlighting that the Internet freedom is "highly imperiled" in the country where many are prosecuted and harassed for what they write online.
LARKANA: Sindh United Party (SUP) chairman Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah feared on Wednesday that the way the candidates of anti-PPP parties were being kidnapped, harassed and forced to change loyalties and step down, the excesses might repeat the 1977-like situation when Maulana Jan Muhammed Abbasi had been abducted and elections declared null and void.
BAHAWALPUR: At least 44 candidates from the PML-N, 35 from the PTI, five from the PPP and over 100 independent candidates are in the run for the local body elections in 47 municipal committee wards of Bahawalnagar city where 153,437 voters are registered.
Rana Yasif.-
Rana Yasif.-
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) candidates from UC 206 have accused their Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) opponents of using public funds to influence voters.
Rana Yasif.-
LAHORE: In Union Council 208, a tough competition is expected between Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
Shamsul Islam.-
As extremist violence and political uncertainty cast a shadow over Turkey, voters are looking for Sunday's parliamentary election to usher in stability. But in a deeply polarized country, the most likely result is more confusion.
RIYADH: A total of 1,039 women are standing as candidates in the upcoming municipal council elections.
They will compete in 212 or 75 percent of the 284 municipal councils, said Jadee Al-Qahtani, head of the Municipal Elections Execu
Presidential Palace has asked media organizations, civil society and women's rights organizations to nominate their members for the selection committee which will then appoint new election commissioners.
President Ashraf Ghani's deputy spokesman, Sayed Zafar Hashemi, said Tuesday that only four organizations have so far introduced their representatives.
AMMAN — Egyptian Ambassador to Jordan Khaled Tharwat, head of the Egyptian elections committee in Amman, said the run-off polls in Jordan have concluded and announced the results.
Prime Minister Tammam Salam will not step down from his post on Thursday, as media reports have been claiming in recent weeks, reported An Nahar daily on Wednesday.
It said that the premier “will not give up his political mission even if his personal interests lie in resigning.”
“Resignation however will not serve the country's interests, especially since the current government is not one of approving decrees, but one of managing the republic in the absence of a president,” his visitors told An Nahar.
Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal movement stressed during their twentieth dialogue session on Tuesday the need to activate the work of the paralyzed government and parliament and continue the implementation of the security plan in all regions.
The session was attended by Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq after media reports said he could be replaced by another Mustaqbal representative. The minister had waged a fierce verbal attack on Hizbullah earlier this month, fueling speculation that his relatively good ties had worsened with the rival party.
Global press organizations including the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), PEN International and the International Press Institute (IPI) have decried a government-led takeover of Koza İpek Holding, which owns media outlets that are critical of the interim Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government.
Darya Podolskaya.-
CEC approved the final list of candidates for Parliament of VI convocation. Only list of applicants for the mandates of Respublika - Ata Jurt faction was changed significantly.
CEC approved the six people, who defended their position on the list at the Supreme Court. Instead Jyrgalbek Samatov, who has Russian citizen, the mandate will receive Bolot Ibraimzhanov. Jyrgalbek Samatov is going to litigate the CEC decision in the Supreme Court.
Nargiza Osmonova.-
Parties, which gained seats in the Kyrgyz Parliament, elected leaders of the factions.
The Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan will be headed by Chynybay Tursunbekov.
Respublika - Ata Jurt faction is led, as expected, by the party leader Omurbek Babanov. The faction has 27 deputies at the time (the party has 28 seats).
Kyrgyzstan party has created a faction, which includes 18 members of Parliament. Kanatbek Isaev was elected its head.
Darya Podolskaya.-
Deputies of the Parliament of the 6th convocation started to work.
Today, the MPs took the oath and received from the head of the CEC Tuigunaaly Abdraimov their official certificates and badges. Six parties passed to the Parliament.
Note, the Social Democratic Party gained 38 seats, Respublika - Ata Jurt - 28, Kyrgyzstan - 18, Onuguu- Progress - 13, Bir Bol - 12, and Ata Meken - 11.
Nasir Jamal.-
AS night falls on Sunday, a dozen or so supporters of Arshad Baloch collect outside his main election office in a bustling Kasur neighbourhood, Kot Haleem Khan. They are preparing to leave for yet another hectic night of door-to-door campaigning to convince around 3,600 voters (from Ward No. 22) to vote for him.
