Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has asked his supporters to bring his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to single party rule again in Nov. 1 general elections, asking them “not to make me obliged” to meet opposition leader Devlet Bahçeli and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu for coalition talks.
Salalah: In the Wilayat of Salalah, voters headed to the ballot boxes to elect two representatives among the eight candidates. The number of male and female voters stood at 32,818.
Four election centres are prepared to receive voters, namely Khoula bint Hakeem School in West Salalah, A'Sa'adah School in A'Sa'adah, Zeik School in the Niyabat of Zeik and Ghado School in the Niyabat of Ghado.
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LAHORE: It is a Thursday, and the eighth of Muharram. Hordes of families are getting off large coaster-buses a little distance away and walk together towards Karbala Gamay Shah, one of the biggest and most important Imambargahs in the city.
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has postponed the all parties conference it had called to formulate a strategy on alleged discrepancies in voter lists discovered in NA-122 by-polls on account of Ashura.
We Want Accountability civil society demonstrators gathered by the municipality of al-Jdeideh protesting the outspread burning of garbage that has spread in several areas in Lebanon diffusing a toxic stench, the National News Agency said on Friday.
The campaigners gathered by the municipality of al-Jdeideh in al-Bauchrieh
demanding that the municipalities intervene and put an end to this “phenomenon in light of the health hazards as the result of inhaling the toxic smoke and foul smell.”
Turkey’s nationalist opposition leader has given a stark warning a week before the Nov. 1 snap elections, suggesting the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power as a single-party government might lead to “chaos,” as it would encourage President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to impose his aspirations for a presidential system.
“The Nov. 1 elections are more important than the June 7 elections. The results of this election may lead to notable chaos [and] nightmares [for the country],” Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), said late on Oct. 22.
The Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) refusal to take disciplinary action against Istanbul deputy Abdurrahim Boynukalın indicates that it supports recent physical attacks against the offices of daily Hürriyet, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said.
A document recently brought to public attention by the FOX TV channel has revealed that in September, the National Police Department warned police stations across the country to take strict security precautions because the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was planning to carry out a large-scale attack in Turkey.
Acting prime minister and Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Chairman Ahmet Davutoğlu signaled his party's intention to establish a matchmaking agency in order to assist those who wish to get married, during an election rally on Thursday.
Davutoğlu's remarks, which sparked wide commentary on Turkish social media, came during a rally in Şanlıurfa, where he called on people to turn to the government if they have difficulty finding a spouse.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asserted its unlimited powers to scrutinise funding of the political parties at any time.
In its detailed judgment on admissibility of a petition accusing the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) of receiving foreign funding in violation of the rules and misuse and concealment of the funds so received, the ECP said the Political Parties Order, read with the Political Patties Rules, 2002, was clear and unambiguous.
Rule 4 requires a party to maintain an account indicating sources of funds audited by a chartered accountant.
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ISLAMABAD: In order to determine where army and Rangers personnel should be deployed, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has sought reports from governments of Punjab and Sindh about ‘sensitive polling stations’ to be set up for the upcoming local government elections.
“Army and Rangers personnel cannot be deployed at all the polling stations,” ECP Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad told reporters on Tuesday after screening of a video clip prepared for training of presiding officers and other election staff.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan approved on Wednesday a proposal to change the polling date for the last phase of local government elections in Punjab and Sindh to Dec 5.
An ECP official told Dawn that a notification about the change would be issued soon. In the original schedule, the polling date was Dec 3.
The commission agreed to change the date at the request of Tehreek Nifaz-i-Fiqah Jafria during a meeting between a TNFJ delegation and ECP Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad on Monday.
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LAHORE: After a hectic day of door-to-door campaigning, Rubina Shaheen finally gets some time to breathe but not for long as local elections are just around the corner.
Rubina is contesting for the chairperson slot on PTI’s ticket for UC 200 which encompasses parts of Gulberg. And though the city is already marked with posters and banners, these are mostly of men. Nowhere around the main roads is there even the printed name of any woman contesting election.
A delegation of the world's leading watchdogs for press freedom ended an unprecedented emergency press freedom mission to Turkey, expressing solidarity with Turkish journalists and calling for an end to the aggressive oppression of the media that it said was hurting Turkish democracy.
Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq sought to quell claims that he may not attend the next round of dialogue between the Mustaqbal Movement and Hizbullah, saying that such a decision would be his alone and not someone else's, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Thursday.
He told the daily: “Patience does not mean surrender.”
“I have waited a whole year to announce a central stance on issues and I hope this is clear,” he said in reference to his recent criticism of Hizbullah.
The presidential elections were postponed on Wednesday for the 30th time following a lack of quorum at parliament.
Speaker Nabih Berri set the new session for November 11.
Prime Minister Tammam Salam's has demanded that a response over the proposed solution to the garbage disposal crisis be made in the upcoming days, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Wednesday.
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