Trends - Election commission of Pakistan

Pakistan Updated 01 Jun, 2022 12:21pm

ECP quorum reached as KP, Punjab members take oath

Babar Hasan Bharwana and Justice (retd) Ikramullah Khan now members of the commission

Pakistan Updated 31 May, 2022 05:36pm

Are the 2023 general elections the most expensive ballot in Pakistan’s history?

In the 2008 general elections expenses were Rs1 billion. The estimated cost of the next polls is Rs47 billion

Pakistan Published 28 May, 2022 05:07pm

‘Humiliating’: Govt teachers on money offered by ECP for election work

Proteters say ECP announced Rs15,000 for 2 months work related to voter list verification - six months after assignment

Pakistan Updated 26 May, 2022 04:41pm

NA passes bill barring use of EVMs, denying voting rights to overseas Pakistanis

ECP asked to run pilot projects on use of EVM, biometric verification during by-elections

Pakistan Updated 29 Apr, 2022 02:08pm

Video Scandal: PPP’s Yousaf Raza Gilani to remain senator, ECP rejects PTI appeals

Commission orders registration of case against Ali Haider Gilani over 'corrupt practices'

Pakistan Published 19 Apr, 2022 01:58pm

ECP can’t issue verdict on foreign funding case, argues PTI lawyer

Election commission to hear case daily to meet 30-day deadline set by Islamabad High Court

Pakistan Published 16 Apr, 2022 11:54am

ECP to hear foreign funding case daily

Deadline is 30 days, says Islamabad High Court

Pakistan Updated 05 Apr, 2022 04:11pm

ECP expresses inability to conduct general elections in three months: report

The FAFEN has identified multiple constitutional, legal and operational challenges to the conduct of an early polls

Pakistan Published 28 Mar, 2022 05:51pm

Court bars ECP from proceeding against PM over code of conduct violation

Imran Khan, federal ministers had addressed public rallies ahead of local body polls in KP

Pakistan Updated 17 Mar, 2022 01:02pm

IHC to hear PM Imran, Asad Umar petition against ECP notices today

Petition notes public office holders have been allowed to take part in election campaigns by making amendments in the Election Act

Pakistan Published 10 Mar, 2022 10:35am

ECP issues notice to Ishaq Dar in disqualification case

A petition seeks Dar’s disqualification under Article 62 and 63 on the grounds that he was declared a defaulter by the SC in 2018

Pakistan Updated 22 Feb, 2022 05:14pm

Govt dismisses ECP concerns on Elections (Amendment) Ordinance 2022

The commission has concerns that allowing public office-holders to visit any area where an election is scheduled would compromise fairness of electoral process

Pakistan Published 18 Feb, 2022 02:27pm

PTI's Faisal Vawda approaches Supreme Court against lifetime disqualification

Says Election Commission of Pakistan does not have power to disqualify him for life

Pakistan Published 17 Feb, 2022 10:37am

First phase of LG elections in Punjab on May 29

By poll on Senate seat that fell vacant after PTI's Faisal Vawda disqualification will held on March 9

Pakistan Published 16 Feb, 2022 01:38pm

IHC reserves decision in Vawda’s plea against lifetime disqualification by ECP

To lawyer Wasim Sajjad’s statement, CJ Athat Minallah says ‘This ‘capital punishment’ has been awarded to many politicians’

Pakistan Published 16 Feb, 2022 10:55am

ECP seeks Rs18b to conduct LG polls, revise electoral rolls

Local government elections are due in Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, ICT

Pakistan Published 16 Feb, 2022 10:23am

ECP rejects KP govt’s plea seeking delay in second phase of LG polls

The elections will be held on March 31

Pakistan Published 15 Feb, 2022 11:05am

SC asks ECP to take decision on 2nd phase of KP LG polls

The Election Commission of Pakistan was directed to hear the KP govt's stance

Pakistan Published 11 Feb, 2022 03:17pm

Umar Gandapur eligible to contest elections as IHC sets aside ECP order

Federal minister Ali Amin Gandpur's brother had been barred from taking part in the local body polls for violating code of conduct

Pakistan Published 09 Feb, 2022 01:42pm

SC suspends high court's decision to postpone LG polls in KP

On February 1, the PHC directed the authorities to hold the polls in the province after the holy month of Ramazan due to weather-related conditions

Pakistan Updated 09 Feb, 2022 01:50pm

ECP disqualifies Faisal Vawda in dual nationality case

Under Article 62 1(f), Vawda has been disqualified for submitting a fake affidavit in the Election Commission of Pakistan

Published 09 Feb, 2022 10:23am

ECP to announce its verdict in PTI's Faisal Vawda case today

A three-member ECP bench had reserved the verdict last year in December pertaining to the PTI leader's disqualification

Pakistan Published 08 Feb, 2022 04:45pm

IHC overturns ECP order to disqualify PTI candidate from LG polls

The Election Commission of Pakistan barred Umar Ali Gandapur, who is the brother of Federal Minister Ali Aman Gandapur, from taking part in the local body polls for violating the code of conduct