ISLAMABAD: A week after empowering the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to use the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), the government on Wednesday gave the media a practical demonstration of the gadget at the Parliament House. The demonstration was led by Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, Adviser to the Prime Minister on […]
Elections
NA-75 Daska by-election postponed to April 10
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to reschedule the NA-75 Daska by-elections. According to the announcement made on Wednesday, the by-polls will now take place on April 10, 2021. Earlier, PML-N had requested the election commission to hold polling again in the Daska constituency as the February 19 election was marred by controversies […]
Italy’s Salvini pulls plug on government, calls for elections
ROME: The leader of Italy’s ruling League party, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, declared the governing coalition to be unworkable on Thursday after months of internal bickering and said the only way forward was to hold fresh elections. The shock announcement follows a period of intense public feuding between the right-wing League and its coalition […]
Corruption tainted Guatemala set to elect new president
Corruption-weary Guatemalans are set to elect a new president Sunday after a tumultuous campaign that saw two leading candidates barred from taking part and the top electoral crimes prosecutor forced to flee the country, fearing for his life. Gang violence, poverty and streams of US-bound migrants have dominated campaigning in Central America’s most populous country, […]
State elections set to offer relief for harried Mexican president
Mexico’s president is expected to score comfortable election wins on Sunday in the first test of his popularity since taking office, despite a weak economy, rampant violence and troubled relations with his US counterpart Donald Trump. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s party is tipped for victory in state gubernatorial races in Baja California on the […]
Tunisia PM Chahed elected as leader of new secular party
Tunisia’s secular Tahya Tounes party, founded this year, elected Prime Minister Youssef Chahed as its president on Sunday, confirming expectations of his leadership months before parliamentary and presidential elections. The new party was formed in January after months of wrangling within ruling coalition party Nidaa Tounes, resulting in the resignation of dozens of leaders. The […]
Amitabh Bachchan would have been a better prime minister than Narendra Modi: Priyanka Gandhi
On Friday, All India Congress Committee General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Varda made a stunning comment during an election rally. She called Narendra Modi the ‘world’s biggest actor’. She made an appalling attack on the Prime Minister of India by comparing him with veteran Bollywood superstar, Amitabh Bachan. Gandhi told the crowd, “Our PM never fulfilled […]
Will there be a détente with India after the elections?
As India elects a new parliament in the world’s largest electoral exercise, its partners and rivals anxiously await results. Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi return for a second term or will the country have a new leader? The guessing game is expected to continue until May 23rd when the election results are expected to be […]
How Pakistan views Indian elections?
There are two traditional assumptions about Indian elections and there is one non traditional approach to Indian elections. First traditional approach is that in case Congress Party wins this election there are chances comprehensive dialogue may start between both states. Comprehensive Dialogue was started by BJP when Foreign Minister Susma Siraj visited Pakistan in Nawaz […]
Less than 3% voter turnout in Pulwama and Shopian districts during Indian elections
The Radio Pakistan reported that during the Indian elections the lowest voter turnout was recorded in India-occupied Kashmir (IoK). The turnout was less than 3 percent during the final phase of India elections in Shopian and Pulwama districts. “The twin districts recorded a voter turnout of 2.87 percent with 300 out of 695 polling booths […]