Pakistan election date announced
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Pakistan is to hold its presidential election on 6 October, the election commission announces.
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Pakistan put off its general election by 6 weeks to February 18 on Wednesday following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, over the objections of the main opposition parties which fear a delay will work against them.
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Troops of Pakistani para-military force check Afghan refugee voters before they enter in polling station to vote in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election at Jallozai camp near Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004.
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The final vote tally from Iraq's Jan.  30 elections will be announced at 4 p.m. (8 a.m. EST) on  Sunday, the Election Commission said.
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Pakistani officials were to meet to decide the fate of scheduled January 8 elections, after Benazir Bhutto's party announced it would contest the vote despite her assassination.
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Pakistan's ruling party has enough votes to re-elect President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to a new five-year term, and the vote will likely take place in the first week of October, top party officials said Saturday.
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Pakistan on Wednesday postponed general elections until February 18 following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, a move grudgingly accepted by the country's major parties.
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&quot;The Electoral Commission set the date of January 30 as the date of the election,&quot; spokesman Farid Ayar told Reuters on Sunday.
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President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will seek a new five-year term in a presidential election set for Oct. 6, officials said.
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 31 -- Long-awaited elections scheduled for next week are almost certain to be postponed Tuesday, a choice that rankles opposition leaders in Pakistan who want the vote held on time.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 6 -- Despite the candidates' colorful posters papering road signs and storefronts, the political atmosphere two weeks before Pakistan's parliamentary elections is as bleak and foreboding as the gray winter sky shrouding much of the country.
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Islamabad: Pakistan&#39;s parliament is due to elect ex-finance minister Shaukat Aziz as prime minister on Friday in a rubber-stamp vote in the final stages of a two-month transfer of power to President Pervez Musharraf&#39;s chosen man.
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Pakistan postpones its vote amid broad violence following Bhutto's assassination. But the delay may heighten tensions
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President Pervez Musharraf pledged Thursday that next week's elections would be free, fair and held on time, after political opponents accused him of planning to rig the vote so he could maintain his grip on power.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf promised Thursday that national elections scheduled for next month would be "free, fair and transparent," dismissing fraud concerns and brushing off criticism over his dismissal of the Supreme Court chief justice.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will seek re-election on October 6, officials said Thursday, as the embattled US ally faced a declaration of war from Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's ruling party assured President Pervez Musharraf yesterday that he had the votes to be elected to a new five-year term in October, before opposition leader Benazir Bhutto returns from exile. The president is chosen by national and provincial lawmakers. Bhutto, the former prime minister who plans to return Oct. 18, had urged that the presidential vote be ...