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How can we make electronic voting count?

ISLAMABAD: In an unusual move likely to enrage civil society, Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani has disapproved a briefing to a panel on the controversial election act amendment bills to be given by an amalgam of NGOs working to make electoral processes transparent and credible. Informed sources told Dawn that the Senate Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs was scheduled to meet on July 12 with Senator Taj Haider in the chair. The committee, which has two bills seeking to amend the Electi...

National May 8, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The electronic voting machines (EVMs) being presented as the ideal solution to election rigging, disputes over results and other poll-related controversies, are going to cost more than Rs100 billion. But despite this huge expense, they are unlikely to be the solution to ending electoral disputes and controversies, experts believe. Experts raise serious questions about the transparency and credibility of elections conducted through EVMs and believe that their dep...

National May 8, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The electronic voting machines (EVMs) being presented as the ideal solution to election rigging, disputes over results and other poll-related controversies, are going to cost more than Rs100 billion. But despite this huge expense, they are unlikely to be the solution to ending electoral disputes and controversies, experts believe. Experts raise serious questions about the transparency and credibility of elections conducted through EVMs and believe that their dep...

Imran Khan to Seek Pakistan Parliament Vote After Shock Loss Bloomberg 3/4/2021 © Bloomberg Abdul Hafeez Shaikh (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said he will seek a confidence vote in the National Assembly, or parliament’s lower house, on Saturday after his finance minister lost an election for a seat in the upper house, the biggest test yet for his three-year-old government. “If I lose the confidence vote, I will happily sit on the opposition benches,” Khan said in ...

Shibli says PTI fought honestly but state resources were not properly utilised Information Minister Senator Shibli Faraz. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: The chief government spokesperson on Saturday admitted that there were internal rifts in the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) due to which it suffered a setback in Friday’s by-elections. Notwithstanding the congratulatory messages by PTI leaders claiming victory in the controversial by-polls in Daska, the ruling party in reality is in a state o...

The Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan issued a set of comprehensive policies on the procurement and administration of coronavirus vaccine, and on the management of the Impact of Covid-19 on the economy and education.

A health worker receives a dose of Sinopharms Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Karachi, February 8. — Reuters/File ISLAMABAD: The government is aiming to achieve herd immunity by vaccinating 70 million people against Covid-19 by the end of the current year. About 30 million people will be vaccinated by September. This was stated by representatives of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) about the ruling party’s policy on vaccination and management of the impact of Covid-19 on education...

In this file photo taken on Nov 17, an illustration picture shows vials with Covid-19 vaccine stickers attached and syringes, with the logo of the University of Oxford and its partner British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. — AFP/File KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: The government is likely to bear $6 to $7 per dose of millions of shots if it opts to pick the Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, which has been approved by the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap), though its sole authorise...

In this file photo taken on Nov 17, an illustration picture shows vials with Covid-19 vaccine stickers attached and syringes, with the logo of the University of Oxford and its partner British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. — AFP/File KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: The government is likely to bear $6 to $7 per dose of millions of shots if it opts to pick the Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, which has been approved by the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap), though its sole authorise...