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DROs, police want army deployment during LG polls: ECP secretary

10 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
Dawn

HYDERABAD: The Secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan, Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad, has said all district returning officers (DROs) and police authorities want deployment of army in the second phase of local government elections in Sindh.

He said that more than the required number of security personnel could be sought for deployment to ensure violence-free elections in the province. He urged all stakeholders to assist the ECP in holding fair polls in line with constitutional responsibilities.

Above the law: Candidates with criminal records elected in Sukkur

10 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
The Express Tribune
SUKKUR: 

Eight of the 18 candidates belonging to the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) who won the recent local government elections in Sukkur have criminal and corruption cases lodged against them.

 

In fact, one of the candidates — Ashfaq Mirani, who has been elected as chairperson of the union committee 24 of Bachal Shah Miani — is a notified criminal with Rs500,000 as head money. In fact, his photo, along with those of other similar candidates, was posted on a billboard outside A-Section police station, until a few days ago.

 

Sisters are doing it for themselves

09 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
The Express Tribune

KARACHI: Pakistan’s is for all purposes a patriarchal society. It is a system where women are only allowed minimal input in the decision-making process. There are deviations, off course. We did elect the first woman head of state among Muslim countries. On the whole, however, the situation is still quite grim.

HDP ready to discuss freedom-based constitution but not presidential system

08 Nov 2015
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hurriyet

The Kurdish-question focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has announced its readiness to discuss replacing the current constitution with a new pro-freedom charter, but has categorically rejected changing Turkey’s administrative system to a presidential one in line with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ambitions. 

LG elections: Political parties form alliance against PPP

07 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
The Express Tribune

HYDERABAD: The local chapters of the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Dadu district have joined hands to contest the local government elections against the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). The alliance, announced at a press conference in Dadu on Thursday, also includes the PPP-Shaheed Bhutto (PPP-SB) and Awami Ittehad Party (AIP).

Repeating history? JI, PTI form alliance for second round of LG elections

07 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
The Express Tribune
KARACHI: 

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) have announced their alliance on more than 80 per cent of the city’s seats for the third round of the local bodies’ polls.

“Karachi has been held hostage by political forces for years, which have never contributed towards the development of the city, but this time, the popularity of PTI and the strength of JI will win the local bodies poll,” said JI’s Karachi ameer, Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Friday.

Rangers chief meets MQM and JI delegations ahead of LG polls

06 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
Dawn

KARACHI: Delegations of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Jamaat-i-Islami called on the Rangers director general on Thursday and discussed issues relating to the Karachi operation and the upcoming local government elections.

Despite having their own media wings, neither the MQM nor the JI issued any official statement regarding the meeting of their respective delegations with Major General Bilal Akbar, the director general of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh.

Rangers at sensitive polling stations, army on standby on 19th: Khuhro

06 Nov 2015
Pakistán
Fuente: 
Dawn

KARACHI: Senior Information Minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that the Rangers will be posted at sensitive and extremely sensitive polling stations in the second phase of local government elections, scheduled for Nov 19, while the Sindh government will request the Election Commission to ensure that army troops stay on standby.

Mismatches had no bearing on Turkey’s final election result: Vote and Beyond

06 Nov 2015
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hurriyet

The independent election monitoring initiative Vote and Beyond has said the minor incompliances between its own reports and the official results of the Nov. 1 election had no bearing on the final outcome.

Vote and Beyond, a civil organization of around 60,000 volunteers, said in a written statement on Nov. 3 that the 10,000-vote discrepancy between the official results of the election and its own reports were ultimately inconsequential.

Almazbek Atambayev: Next two years we have to learn living without grant assistance, using our own capabilities

06 Nov 2015
Kirguistán
Fuente: 
24 News Agency

"The next two years we have to learn living without grant assistance, using our own capabilities," President Almazbek Atambayev said at a meeting of the Parliament.

The Head of State took the floor after new members of the Kyrgyz Government and the newly appointed heads of law enforcement bodies of the republic have taken the oath.

The President noted that "the international community does not consider Kyrgyzstan as poor country any more." "We should learn earning enough money to the state budget and learn to live within our means," he said.

PKK ends unilateral cease-fire, policeman killed in Silvan

05 Nov 2015
Turquía
Fuente: 
Todays Zaman

The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), an umbrella group that encompasses the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has announced that it ended the unilateral cease-fire it declared ahead of the Nov. 1 repeat election, amid already escalating tension in predominantly Kurdish region, with a police officer killed during clashes with PKK terrorists in the Silvan district of Diyarbakır province on Thursday.

Bernardino León admite un daño a su imagen de imparcialidad

05 Nov 2015
Libia
Fuente: 
El País

El representante de Naciones Unidas en Libia, el español Bernardino León, negó ayer que haya un conflicto de intereses por su fichaje para trabajar en la nueva escuela diplomática de Emiratos Árabes Unidos, pero admitió que “las apariencias no son buenas”, y de hecho, no lo han sido ni en Trípoli, cuyo Parlamento ha reclamado explicaciones a la ONU, ni tampoco han entusi

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