Nasir Jamal.-
AS night falls on Sunday, a dozen or so supporters of Arshad Baloch collect outside his main election office in a bustling Kasur neighbourhood, Kot Haleem Khan. They are preparing to leave for yet another hectic night of door-to-door campaigning to convince around 3,600 voters (from Ward No. 22) to vote for him.
Shakeel Ahmad.-
MULTAN: In a display of ‘political sagacity’ ahead of the local polls, residents of Basti Baghwali have conducted an election of their own to select one of the two aspirants for the actual contest “to have better chance of winning”.
The political activists set up two polling stations (one each for men and women) to ‘elect’ the candidate for general councillor slot in Khanewal’s Union Council 116.
Muscat: Newly elected Shura members would be invited to attend the extraordinary meeting to select the chairman and two deputy chairmen as per the provisions of the Royal Decree No. 99/2011, Majlis Al Shura Secretary-General Sheikh Ali bin Nasser Al Mahrouqi said.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has ordered Chief Secretary and Inspector General of Police, Punjab, to take action against thee LG poll candidates who manhandled Returning Officer Allah Ditta Warraich in Hafizabad.
The candidates are: Aman Ullah Sandhu, Manzoorul Hasan Chatta and Fazal Qadir.
Terming the incident a criminal act to sabotage elections, the ECP ordered Chief Secretary and Inspector General of Police, Punjab, to take action against culprits under the law and submit a report to the commission by 2pm on Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD: The process of submission of nomination papers for local government elections in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) will start from Monday (today). Scrutiny of nomination papers will be conducted from November 1 to the 4th. Appeals against rejection or acceptance of nomination papers would be filed on November 5 and 6. Appeals would be disposed of from 7 to 9th. Candidates can withdraw their candidature on November 10th while the final list of contesting candidates with symbols allotted to them will be published the following day.
Rana Tanveer.-
LAHORE: The Jamaat-i-Ahmadiyya (JA) will not partake in the forthcoming local government polls to register its protest against what it calls the step-motherly conduct of the state towards it.
AMMAN — Newly appointed Senate President Faisal Fayez sent a letter to His Majesty King Abdullah pledging cooperation with all constitutional authorities to achieve envisioned comprehensive reforms.
Presidential Palace has asked media organizations, civil society and women's rights organizations to nominate their members for the selection committee which will then appoint new election commissioners.
President Ashraf Ghani's deputy spokesman, Sayed Zafar Hashemi, said Tuesday that only four organizations have so far introduced their representatives.
AMMAN — Egyptian Ambassador to Jordan Khaled Tharwat, head of the Egyptian elections committee in Amman, said the run-off polls in Jordan have concluded and announced the results.
Prime Minister Tammam Salam will not step down from his post on Thursday, as media reports have been claiming in recent weeks, reported An Nahar daily on Wednesday.
It said that the premier “will not give up his political mission even if his personal interests lie in resigning.”
“Resignation however will not serve the country's interests, especially since the current government is not one of approving decrees, but one of managing the republic in the absence of a president,” his visitors told An Nahar.
Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal movement stressed during their twentieth dialogue session on Tuesday the need to activate the work of the paralyzed government and parliament and continue the implementation of the security plan in all regions.
The session was attended by Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq after media reports said he could be replaced by another Mustaqbal representative. The minister had waged a fierce verbal attack on Hizbullah earlier this month, fueling speculation that his relatively good ties had worsened with the rival party.
Andrés Mourenza.-
Cuando solo faltan unos días para las cruciales elecciones del próximo domingo, un tribunal de Ankara ha ordenado intervenir un grupo mediático crítico con el Gobierno islamista de Turquía y ha amenazado con apagar la señal de sus dos canales de televisión.
A Justice and Development Party (AKP) official’s suggestion that Turkey will again head to the polls if the Nov. 1 polls do not produce a majority government are tantamount to blackmail of the country, the main opposition has said.
“If a result resembling the June 7 results emerges, I’m afraid there will again be talk of elections,” AKP Deputy Chair Mehmet Ali Şahin said recently.
The Nov. 1 snap election is the key to getting Turkey out of the instability and insecurity it was dragged into after the June 7 election, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has argued, while reiterating an earlier warning to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to be fair in its evaluation of the upcoming elections.
Ali Kayalar.-
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) is expecting a comeback of nearly 7 percent of its voters, who had earlier casted their vote for the party but stepped back in the June 7 election, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said.
“The political outlook that emerged after [the] June 7 [election] will bring the AKP new votes due to a search for political sustainability and a powerful government,” Kurtulmuş told Hürriyet Daily News during an interview on Oct. 26.
The names of around 672,000 people who cast their votes in the June 7 general election are missing from the voter lists that were prepared ahead of the Nov. 1 snap election, according to a statement made by Republican People's Party (CHP) İzmir deputy Erdal Aksünger during a press conference on Monday in İzmir.
Hero aka Mehr Shabbir is hoping for an easy win from Union Council 218. He participated in the local government elections for the first time in 2005 from a Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-i-Azam seat, which he won, and later joined the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to remain in active politics. Now, he is contesting the election as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz candidate for chairman.
Voter turnout in Sunday’s polls was 56.66 per cent, according to Talal bin Ahmed al Saadi, rapporteur of the Higher Committee for Majlis A’Shura eighth term elections.
Muhammd Shahzad.-
Following the hype of the NA-122 by-elections, the morale of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf supporters and candidates in Union Council 118 is at an all-time high.
Residents of the area say that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has neglected the area for too long. “The government has failed to deliver and the people are tired of their empty promises,” says one of the residents.
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