Category: Elections 2013
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PTCL connects 535 offices of Election Commission of Pakistan
PTCL has connected 535 election offices of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to provide voice and data integration and interchange services including wireline and wireless broadband. Some remote sites have been connected via VSAT technology. Concurrently, more than 500 central, district and regional offices of Returning Officers (ROs) of ECP are being connected through…
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Elections 2013: PPP announced candidates for Provincial and National Assembly Seats in Sindh
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) officially announced the candidates contesting for most of the national and provincial assembly seats in Sindh. Former Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, who is also PPP president of Sindh chapter, revealed the final list of party candidates for the May 11 election at a press conference on Tuesday. PPP…
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Fakhrul Islam, MQM candidate for PS-47 shot dead in Hyderabad
Fakhrul Islam, MQM candidate for Sindh provincial assembly seat PS-47 was shot dead in Hyderabad. According to Express News, Fakhrul Islam was shot dead outside his home in Halah market by two unidentified gunmen. People in the area reported this incident as the second or third target killing in the area. An Express News reporter…
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Election Commission of Pakistan rules out Overseas Pakistanis vote
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has ruled out any possibility for overseas Pakistanis to vote in upcoming Elections, saying that proper mechanism and legislation were essential prerequisites. Without making necessary legislation, enabling on-resident Pakistanis to vote in the forthcoming elections would compromise the transparency of the election process, the ECP said in a report…
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Final Voter Lists and Stats for Election 2013 by Election Commission of Pakistan
Voter statistics for Elections 2013. These numbers are lasted updated in March 2013. 85 million voters will use their right to vote in Elections 2013, 48 million Male voters and 37 million Female voters. The age segregation of voters is as follows: – 23.5% voters are in age group 31-40 years, 20% are in age…
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Election 2013: 4000 candidates have not paid Income Tax for once
At least half of the candidates who have submitted their nomination papers for Election 2013 are non-taxpayers or tax defaulters. As reported by Ansar Abbasi in the News, almost 4,000 out of the 8,000 candidates, whose nomination papers had been scanned and scrutinised by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), do not pay any income…
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Najam Sethi selected as interim Chief Minister Punjab
Najam Sethi, senior journalist, book publisher, editor of The Friday Times, and participant of talk show Aaps ki Baat at Geo News, has been selected as interim Chief Minister Punjab. A six member parliamentary committee comprising three members each from the government and opposition side has been discussing four names for the post of caretaker…
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Mir Hazar Khan Khoso selected as Interim Prime Minister Pakistan
As top political parties of Pakistan failed to agree upon a name for the position of Caretaker Prime Minister, the Election Commission has came out with the winner – and its Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, the interim Prime Minister of Pakistan to oversee the nation through Elections 2013. Profile of Mir Hazar Khan Khoso at…
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Nawab Ghous Bux Barozai took oath as the interim Chief Minister of Balochistan
Nawab Ghous Bux Barozai took oath as the interim Chief Minister of Balochistan on Saturday. Governor Balochistan Nawab Zulfiqar Magsi administered the oath. Nawab Ghous Bux Barozai is the son of senior Pakistan Peoples Party leader Mohammad Khan Barozai, a former chief minister and speaker of the Balochistan Assembly. Initially, the names considered for the…
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Justice (retd) Zahid Qurban Alvi the Caretaker Chief Minister Sindh.
Justice (retd) Zahid Qurban Alvi took oath as Caretaker Chief Minister Sindh. MQM had presented five nominees for Sindh caretaker chief minister. The names included Muneeb Ahmad Khan, Justice (retd) Ghaux Muhammad, Habibur Rehman, Nasir Aslam Zahid and Mehmood Alam Rizvi. While Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) nominated Justice (retd) Deedar Hussain and Justice (retd) Hamid…