local bodies polls

KARACHI: Political parties and independent candidates have started contacts and strategic talks to build new alliances for the third phase of local government elections in remaining districts of Sindh and Punjab provinces, ARY News reported on Monday.

PESHAWAR: Twenty-two candidates of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) emerged victorious in May 30th local bodies elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - first time in the election politics of the northwestern province of Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to refer the matter of holding local bodies polls in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the Supreme Court to seek postponement of the elections, ARY News reported on Friday.

KARACHI: Sindh Assembly on Monday passed the Local Government (Amendment) Bill 2014, ARY News reported.

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court has accepted a review petition of the election commission with regard to delimitations for local bodies polls, ARY News reported on Monday.

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court in its decision over the schedul of the local government elections on Wednesday directed that the elections in Balochistan will be held on December 07, according to the schedule. It is recalled that a bench of the apex court granted a plea of the Election Commission of Pakistan for review of the existing schedule of the LB Polls in Sindh and Punjab provinces. Around 22,000 candidates have filed nomination papers for contesting the polls in Balochistan. The process of filing objections over…