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CNews ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan has made transparent arrangements for general elections, an election commission official here said.Talking to CNews News Secretary Election Commission Kunwar Dilshad Saturday said that the election material of international standards has been sent to the concerned officials and ballot papers will be handed over to the Returning Officers tomorrow. Replying a question about election results, Dilshad said the presiding officers have been directed to hold counting in presence of polling agents of candidates and provide the result to them. The presiding officers would forward the results to the Returning Officers who will immediately announce the result, he further said.They have been also directed to write the results in words as well as in figures, he said. The copy of the result will also be provided to media and would be put on at the polling station for general public. The result would later sent to the provincial and central election c...

CNews ISLAMABAD: Polling continued for general elections on Monday as 10 persons were killed and several injured in incidents of violence.The polling process in most of the constituencies continued peacefully as incidents of violence reported in several areas, which claimed 10 lives including a union council nazim and a woman. The woman was killed in exchange of fire between political workers in Gujrat, while a union council nazim was killed in firing in Toba Tek Singh. The polling was suspended after killing of an activist of Muslim League (N) in NA-112 of Sialkot.

CNews Special Report: The people of Pakistan have headed to the polls in their country's national and provincial elections.The elections were postponed from January 8 after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistan People's Party leader and a former prime minister, in December Voting in Pakistan began on Monday.The voting is expected to set in motion a full return to civilian governance after eight years of military rule under President Pervez Musharraf. Musharraf seized power in 1999 by deposing the civilian government of Nawaz Sharif in coup. The newly elected parliament will also have to confront major issues such as growing militancy and a sluggish economy. Also to consider is whether to reinstate independent-minded judges who were removed by Musharraf during a state of emergency he declared in November last year. If the opposition wins more than two-thirds of the seats in parliament, it is likely to try impeach Musharraf. What is at stake? Voters will get the chan...

CNews LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement Chief, Altaf Hussain Sunday appealed to the people to come out of their houses to cast vote in tomorrow’s general elections, considering their right to vote as national obligation. In a statement he said, the people of Pakistan including 98 percent downtrodden population have been giving their votes to the feudal and landlords of the country but the masses are still deprived of the basic facilities of life besides justice. “The feudal and landlords forming a meager two percent of the total population are unaware of the problems and difficulties of the people,” MQM Chief maintained. It is the need of the time that people should become aware to the realities and cast their votes in favor of those parties which represent the poor and downtrodden lot of people and also struggling to safeguard their rights.

CNews London: Intelligence agencies of Pakistan have already rigged the February 18 parliamentary elections for pro-Musharraf political parties, a retired senior intelligence official has revealed. Intelligence agencies of Pakistan have already rigged the February 18 parliamentary elections for pro-Musharraf political parties, a retired senior intelligence official has revealed.The agencies have targeted key constituencies in the rural Pakistan, ballot boxes have been "pre-stuffed" and, compliant returning and presiding officers are drafted to polling booths, the former official told The Daily Telegraph. He further alleged that Pakistan's military intelligence agencies had focused on rigging marginal seats in Punjab province to help the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q). "Nothing is needed on the day. It is all pre-planned," he said. "The ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate] has directed and advised the PML-Q which seats need to be targeted and ...

CNews Karachi: The radical Jamiat Ulema Pakistan (JUP) today announced that it would be boycotting the general elections to be held on February 18. The radical Jamiat Ulema Pakistan (JUP) today announced that it would be boycotting the general elections to be held on February 18.Party chief Shah Anas Noorani accused Election Commission of Pakistan and the caretaker government of favouring JUP rivals, which therefore, necessitated a boycott call. A JUP spokesman said on Thursday that the party decided to boycott the polls 10 days ago, and Shah Anas Noorani was only reiterating it on Thursday. The spokesman said that their party's decision has no any link with All Parties Democratic Alliance`s (APDM) stand of boycotting polls. He said that the JUP was taking the step after the Election Commission of Pakistan failed to respond to its repeated complaints about the tearing its election banners, posters and the harassment of its workers by rival factions.The caretaker government's su...

CNews Washington: The United States Government has said that it wants moderate forces in Pakistan to work together to help govern the country and put it back on the path to democratic rule.The United States Government has said that it wants moderate forces in Pakistan to work together to help govern the country and put it back on the path to democratic rule. U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack was quoted by the Daily Times as saying that Washington hoped the February 18 elections would produce a government in which Pakistanis could have confidence. He said Washington has provided the funding for the training of Pakistani election observers, adding that other countries had different efforts underway as well. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration has hired Democracy International as a last resort to monitor Pakistan's general elections after every other monitoring group in the US declined to travel to Pakistan. According to a report published in the Washington Post on Saturda...

CNews Karachi: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has said that the party would be in a position to nominate its own prime minister and chief minister in Sindh in the 2013 election. Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has said that the party would be in a position to nominate its own prime minister and chief minister in Sindh in the 2013 election. Addressing public meetings in North Karachi, Orangi Town and Shah Faisal Colony from London on telephone, Hussain said that some elements did not want the MQM to work freely, but when the party was given chance it launched a number of development projects. He said his party would contribute to making the February 18 election peaceful. According to the Dawn, he urged other political and religious parties to play their role in maintaining peace and observe the day of election as a day of democracy and peace. Hussain asked party workers not to get provoked and remain peaceful. The MQM leader paid tribute to party w...