Tag: ECP
Naya Pakistan
By Babar Sattar
Elections produced winners and losers. Election 2018 did too. The PTI won across the country, emerging as a dominant federal party and...
A Judge Speaks
Spearhead Opinion – 24.07.2018
In most people’s mind the image of a judge is that of a mature, intellectually endowed, highly educated experienced, mature and...
Election Fever
Spearhead Analysis – 17.07.2018
The former PM and his daughter were convicted while abroad. They chose to return to Pakistan because it was in their political...
Delimitation Issues
Spearhead Analysis – 03.07.2018
By Hira A. Shafi
Senior Research Analyst, Spearhead Research
Pakistan’s constitution mandates national census to be held every 10 years. Despite that, the census was...
Why SC Rejected LHC Ruling on Nomination Papers
The Pakistan Supreme Court overruled a Lahore High Court (LHC) ruling regarding reform of the nomination papers last Sunday - Will this lead to...
IHC declares delimitation in four districts as null and void
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday declared delimitation of four constituencies void and reserved its verdict on five other districts.
Justice Aamer Farooq announced...
Can troops be deployed at every polling station?
By Ansar Abbasi
Deployment of army-men inside and outside of every polling station in the forthcoming general elections as demanded by most of the political...
PML-N faces new front over delimitations
By Irfan Ghauri
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) appears to be heading towards confrontation with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) after a parliamentary committee ‘agreed’...
Delimitation method in Election 2018
By Hassan Yousaf Shah
“It’s not how you play the game. It’s how the game plays you.”
The outcome of the delimitation, due in the next two...
How the 24th constitutional amendment was passed
By Murtaza Solangi
The plan was to create a constitutional vacuum and lead it into an extra-constitutional situation. The goal would be a caretaker...