The Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) intra-court appeal was accepted by the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday, upholding the electoral watchdog’s ruling against PTI’s intra-party polls. The ECP had appealed the high court’s ruling on December 22 that declared the PTI’s internal elections invalid and that the party should not have continued to use […]
As the election process went to the appellate stage on Monday, dozens of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidates filed complaints with the election tribunals challenging the rejection of their nomination papers by the appropriate returning officers during inspection. Invoking Section 63 of the Elections Act, a lawyer located in Lahore has simultaneously objected to the acceptance […]
The Sehat Card Plus, a micro-health insurance program was one of the flagship initiatives of the Government of K-P, offering free-of-cost treatment to all citizens through an insurance company selected via national competitive bidding. Under the program, more than 7.2 million families in the province were receiving free in-patient healthcare services worth Rs1 million per […]
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was given temporary reprieve by the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday. This allowed the party to once again use the “bat” as its electoral symbol until the electoral Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) order barring intra-party polls was finally decided upon. The court postponed the hearing until the conclusion of the […]
On Friday evening, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lost its famous “bat” symbol, which represents Imran Khan, the party’s founder, playing cricket. This was done by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). A five-member ECP bench led by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja pronounced the PTI’s intra-party elections illegal, announcing its reserved ruling. The 11-page […]
When the Supreme Court is committed to a matter, influential groups find it extremely difficult to overturn the court’s decision. The Lahore High Court’s ruling suspending the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) notification about the recruitment of DROs and ROs from the executive branch has been overturned by a three-judge bench led by Chief Justice […]
A three-member court, led by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa and including Justice Sardar Tariq and Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, heard the ECP’s appeal against the LHC judgement banning training of district returning officers (DROs) and returning officers (ROs). The election commission should do its job we will not micromanage you,CJP Isa […]
The Pakistan Muslim League– (PML-N) on Thursday accused the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of hatching a conspiracy to delay the February 8 general elections. In a statement on Thursday, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif said the PTI was conspiring to defer the general elections scheduled to be held on February 8 next year. Referring to the PTI […]
Shehbaz sees a repetition of the cipher episode; Malik says ECP enjoys powers for appointing officials PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said the PTI was conspiring to get the February 8 general elections canceled just like it had staged the cipher episode. “The application filed by the PTI [against the appointment of bureaucrats as […]
Funding case: IHC grants protective bail to Imran Khan till Oct 18: The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday granted protective bail to Imran Khan to avoid arrest in the prohibited funding case. Approving the protective bail of Imran Khan until October 18 (Tuesday), the court directed the PTI chief that he can obtain interim bail […]
