Senate elections and electoral reforms on March 14, 2017The 27th Constitutional amendment bill tabled in National Assembly on March 8 is apart of electoral reforms package prepared by special Parliamentary Committee set up in 2014.The committee published its report in January earlier his year. The report included a draft law aimed at combining nine different election laws and strengthening the lego-electoral system. The […]
The Court, political parties and local government elections on April 10, 2014The Supreme Court (SC), in its recent separate but identical judgments on local government elections in Punjab and Sindh, has declared that provisions of provincial laws related to delimitation of constituencies by provincial authorities are in violation of the constitution. The court said the power to hold elections for the local government stands vested with […]