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NADRA, ECP lock horns over i-voting

Islamabad – September 16 (Online): Election Commission of Pakistan has clarified that it is their responsibility of conducting elections as per any new method. In a reply to NADRA Chairman Tariq Malik’s letter, ECP clarified that implementation of any new method to hold elections is […]

ECP to take legal action against federal ministers

Islamabad – September 12 (Online): Election Commission of Pakistan’s urgent meeting under Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan has been called in Islamabad on Monday to discuss allegations made by federal ministers and PM’s advisor against the CEC. Two members of ECP, Secretary ECP and other […]

Railways Minister Swati levels serious allegations against ECP of taking bribes

Islamabad September 10 (Online): Officials of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) walked out of a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs after Railways Minister Azam Swati levelled serious allegations against the Commission of ‘taking bribes’. The debate on the usage of […]

ECP constitutes teams to monitor cantonment board polls

ISLAMABAD, Sep 6 (APP):Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Monday announced special monitoring teams to ensure free, fair and transparent elections being held in the various cantonment boards of the country. The monitoring teams would keep an eye on poll campaigns and check any violation of […]

ECP refutes KP LG elections delaying allegations

ISLAMABAD, Aug 25 (APP):The election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday refuted a news report of postponing Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local government elections for a year. “It was untrue to hold Election Commission responsible for delaying LG elections or agreeing to any such delay,” an ECP […]

Fawad dispels impression of deadlock on ECP members appointment

ISLAMABAD, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Tuesday dispelled the impression that there was any deadlock between the government and the opposition on the appointment of members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) . In a tweet, he said the prime […]

ECP to be given practical demonstrations on EVM, I-voting mechanism: Fawad

ISLAMABAD, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Monday said the departments concerned would soon give practical demonstrations/briefings to the Election Commission of Pakistan on the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and Internet-voting mechanism to ensure transiency in elections and give overseas Pakistanis their […]

ECP seeks reply from scrutiny committee in foreign funding case

The hearing of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) foreign funding case at the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has been adjourned till March 30. The election commission conducted the hearing of the PTI foreign funding case today. The lawyer of Akbar S Babar said that he […]

ECP to hear PTI petition against Yousuf Raza Gillani today

Election Commission will hear Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) petition against former prime minister and newly-elected Senator Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani today (Tuesday). The petition was filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to block the Yousuf Raza Gillani’s victory notification in the Senate election after former premier’s son Ali Haider […]

Faisal Vawda files petition in SHC against ECP

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Faisal Vawda has on Monday moved the Sindh High Court (SHC) against the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Faisal Vawda, while challenging the ECP’s decision of February 24, has requested the high court to stop the election commission from conducting ineligibility case against him. […]

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