Khawar Ghumma.-
All eyes seem to be set on the fierce battle being fought in Lahore by the ruling PML-N and Imran Khan’s PTI over the NA-122 seat. But even as voters decide the winner on Sunday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will be tested to ensure that this time, the exercise is not marred by the same lapses that necessitated the by-election.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Thursday rejected Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s plea that the poll body did not have the authority to hear a case regarding the party’s financial matters and scan its documents in this regard.
RASHID HASSAN.-
Former IDF chief of staff Lt.- Gen. Benny Gantz can legally enter politics and challenge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the premiership, despite a law requiring a three-year cooling-off period for former senior security officials, according to a report Thursday in The Jerusalem Post’s Hebrew sister publication Ma’ariv Sof Hashavua.
The law, which was passed in 2007, has prevented IDF chiefs of staff and other generals from going straight from the army to the Knesset like many of their predecessors.
Prime Minister Tammam Salam is expected to call for a cabinet session to put into execution the waste management plan of Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb.
The session will unlikely face a paralysis over differences between cabinet members on several controversial issues.
Education Minister Elias Bou Saab did not rule out Free Patriotic Movement ministers' participation in the session.
“This is an emergency and does not need an agenda or decrees,” he told As Safir daily.
Pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said those who favor violence should not vote for his party in the upcoming elections as the party wants a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue.
A delegation of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) voiced concerns over pressure on media, recent violence on political party premises and highly disproportionate coverage of different political parties by state-owned media during their meeting in Ankara Oct. 5-6.
A seven-member cross-party delegation of PACE noted the early parliamentary election campaign is being conducted in a dramatically changed environment, compared to the June 7 elections, in a statement released after a pre-electoral visit.
Spokesperson to the Higher Elections Committee (HEC) Omar Marawan has said the law stipulates that all niqab-wearing women will only cast ballots if they remove the face veil while voting, for identity verification purposes. Otherwise they will be barred.
The first round of the elections is expected to take place inside Egypt on 18-19 October in 14 governorates (Giza, Fayoum, Beni Suef, Minya, Assiut, New Valley, Sohag, Qena, Luxor and Aswan).
The Republican People’s Party (CHP) has specified its communication guidelines ahead of the Nov. 1 general election, asking members to “avoid all statements that intimidate ethnic or religious minorities.”
It also requested that party members avoid placing placards and posters at historic, cultural or religious buildings for propaganda purposes.
Voting for the snap elections on Nov. 1 has started at Turkey’s representatives in foreign countries and at border gates across the country.
A total of 2,895,885 Turkish citizens living abroad are eligible to vote either at 112 foreign representative offices in 54 countries or at 30 customs gates on Turkey’s borders and international airports.
The voting at foreign representative offices and border gates started on Oct. 8, through the voting schedule of the many offices vary.
Malik Asad.-
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Wednesday challenged the suspension of a Rs341 billion relief package for farmers.
The implementation of portions of the National Kissan Relief Package was suspended by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) last week. The package was announced less than three weeks after the schedule for local government elections had been issued in Punjab and Sindh.
Irfan Ghauri.-
Parliamentary panel on electoral reforms is considering changing procedure of elections on women seats from indirect to direct polls.
The committee on Wednesday sought recommendations from all political parties on proposals to hold direct elections on the seats, reserved for women in the lower and upper house of parliament, including in the four provincial assemblies.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has collected Rs13.2 million from aspiring candidates for local body elections in Faisalabad district.
Zionist Union chairman Isaac Herzog and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid will take their battle over the leadership of the opposition to the Old City of Jerusalem Thursday morning where they plan to hold rival press conferences minutes apart on the same bloodied street.
Herzog and Lapid both want to paint themselves as the main alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They both have become increasingly critical of the prime minister.
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