[🇵🇰] Pakistan General Elections -- 2024

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PML-N, MQM-P accord to empower local govts​

Kalbe Ali Published March 2, 2024

• Proposed 26th amendment wants federation to establish local govts under Article 140-A
• Articles 140-B and 140-C to be introduced; sixth schedule to be added to Constitution

ISLAMABAD: The PML-N and MQM-P on Friday signed a formal agreement to empower local governments, which will be directly established and draw powers from the federation instead of provinces.

The memorandum of understanding, signed at Parliament House, relates to the two parties’ resolve to introduce the 26th amendment to the Constitution.

The two-point agreement was signed by Ahsan Iqbal of the PML-N and Syed Mustafa Kamal of the MQM-P.

 

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Sarfraz Bugti becomes Balochistan CM ‘unopposed’​

Official announcement in assembly today.

 

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PPP invites applications for Senate tickets​

Amjad Mahmood
March 2, 2024

LAHORE: The Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) is officially inviting applications from candidates interested in running for vacant Senate seats, with the elections scheduled to take place within the coming weeks.

The seats became vacant either due to the election of some Senate members to different assemblies or resignations by a couple of them.

PPPP Secretary General Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari said in a statement that those interested in getting PPPP tickets for the vacant seats of the upper house of the bicameral parliament should apply to the party by March 3 (Sunday).

The applications must be addressed to PPPP President Asif Ali Zardari with a bank draft of Rs100,000 in the name of the party enclosed and should be sent to Bilawal House, Karachi, or Zardari House, Islamabad, at House No. 8, Street 19, F-8/2, Mr Bokhari added.

Committee formed to look after party’s Punjab affairs

On Thursday, the party wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja to hold Senate polls as soon as possible to complete the 100-member house, which is currently short of 11 members.

Senate elections are usually held in March every three years when 50 per cent of the members retire after completing a six-year term.

 

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Sharif camp optimistic after Nawaz woos Fazl for support​

Kalbe Ali
March 2, 2024

PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman share a light moment during a meeting at the latter’s residence in Islamabad on Friday.—White Star
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ISLAMABAD: PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif visited the residence of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman here on Friday, possibly to seek the latter’s support in the formation of the upcoming coalition government at the Centre, as the JUI-F had abstained during the voting for speaker and deputy speaker of the National Assembly.

 

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