May 5, 2021
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Tuesday accepted PMLN candidate Miftah Ismail s application ordering recount in NA-249 Karachi on May 6.
The Commission had on Saturday issued a stay order, withholding the results of NA-249, Karachi by-elections. The stay order was issued on the application of PMLN candidate Miftah Ismail, seeking recount.
The Commission directed the contestants to reach the office of returning officer (RO) at 9am on May 6 for the recount. Chaired by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, a four-member bench conducted the hearing. Miftah s counsel argued that the signatures of presiding officers (POs) of 167 polling stations were missing on Form-45, while the party s polling agents were also not given Form-46. He argued that Form-46 was just as important as Form-45 according to Justice Nasirul Mulk Commission report. He said the presiding officers were bound to provide Form-45 and Form-46 to the polling ag
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/ KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Tuesday accepted PMLN candidate Miftah Ismail’s application ordering recount in NA-249 Karachi on May 6.
The Commission had on Saturday issued a stay order, withholding the results of NA-249, Karachi by-elections.
The stay order was issued on the application of PMLN candidate Miftah Ismail, seeking recount.
The Commission directed the contestants to reach the office of returning officer (RO) at 9am on May 6 for the recount.
Chaired by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, a four-member bench conducted the hearing.
Miftah’s counsel argued that the signatures of presiding officers (POs) of 167 polling stations were missing on Form-45, while the party’s polling agents were also not given Form-46.
May 5, 2021
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Tuesday accepted PMLN candidate Miftah Ismail s application ordering recount in NA-249 Karachi on May 6.
The Commission had on Saturday issued a stay order, withholding the results of NA-249, Karachi by-elections. The stay order was issued on the application of PMLN candidate Miftah Ismail, seeking recount.
The Commission directed the contestants to reach the office of returning officer (RO) at 9am on May 6 for the recount. Chaired by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, a four-member bench conducted the hearing. Miftah s counsel argued that the signatures of presiding officers (POs) of 167 polling stations were missing on Form-45, while the party s polling agents were also not given Form-46.
Race for NA-249 seat begins
No clear favourite in constituency with 331,000 registered voters
PHOTO: APP/FILE
KARACHI:
Around 30 candidates had collected 68 nomination forms for contesting the by-elections on the NA-249 seat - which was vacated by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Faisal Vawda who resigned from the National Assembly after bagging a Senate seat - as of Sunday.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz s (PML-N s) Miftah Ismail, Pakistan Peoples Party s (PPP s) Nisar Khuhro and Qadir Khan Mandokhel, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan s (MQM-P s) Yousuf Alam, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf s (PTI s) Laila Parveen and Ashraf Jabbar Qureshi, Pak Sarzameen Party s Syed Mustafa Kamal, Syed Hafeezuddin and Humayun Usman, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl s Rashid Mehmood Soomro, three Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) candidates and Sunni Tehreek s Bilal Qadri are among those who have collected the nomination papers.
Karachi
March 15, 2021
After the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced the schedule for the by-poll in Karachiâs National Assembly constituency NA-249, political parties have intensified their activities for the closely-watched contest.
The constituency has fallen vacant after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Faisal Vawda, who was also serving as the federal minister for water resources, resigned from his National Assembly membership a couple of days ago after casting his vote in the recently-held Senate elections. He has also been elected to the Senate from Sindh.
The by-election will be held on April 29, according to the ECP schedule. On Sunday, two political parties, the Awami National Party (ANP) and Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP), held meetings to discuss the upcoming by-election and announced that they would take part in the poll.