August 4, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) could be forced to function for a long period without replacing two of its members who retired last month after completing their constitutionally-mandated five-year tenure. The reason: there is little likelihood of any contact between the two principal parties that have to agree to the appointments.
The process could see a repeat of the 2019 deadlock over picking two other ECP members, who had then retired. Once again, Prime Minister Imran Khan and leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif are meant to select the new members through a meaningful and result-oriented consultation.
August 4, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) could be forced to function for a long period without replacing two of its members who retired last month after completing their constitutionally-mandated five-year tenure. The reason: there is little likelihood of any contact between the two principal parties that have to agree to the appointments.
The process could see a repeat of the 2019 deadlock over picking two other ECP members, who had then retired. Once again, Prime Minister Imran Khan and leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif are meant to select the new members through a meaningful and result-oriented consultation.
August 4, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) could be forced to function for a long period without replacing two of its members who retired last month after completing their constitutionally-mandated five-year tenure. The reason: there is little likelihood of any contact between the two principal parties that have to agree to the appointments.
The process could see a repeat of the 2019 deadlock over picking two other ECP members, who had then retired. Once again, Prime Minister Imran Khan and leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif are meant to select the new members through a meaningful and result-oriented consultation.
ISLAMABAD: Uncertainty looms over the fate of the upcoming local government (LG) elections in Islamabad as the interior ministry has withdrawn a letter, in which it had requested for delimitation of 50 union councils (UCs).
During a meeting of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, the ECP officials said the delimitation process had been started after the interior ministry, in a letter dated May 18, informed the commission that the capital would have 50 UCs.
However, officials said, after the ECP started the delimitation process, another letter was issued by the ministry dated July 6, in which it withdrew the earlier letter.
July 28, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday convened a meeting on August 10 regarding the holding of local government elections in Sindh and Balochistan. The chief secretaries and the secretaries of Local Government of both the provinces have been called to inform the commission about the steps taken by the provincial governments regarding the conduct of local government elections. The decision to this effect was taken here at a meeting of the Election Commission of Pakistan, which was presided over by Sikandar Sultan Raja, chief election commissioner of Pakistan. Apart from ECP members, Shah Muhammad Jatoi and Nisar Ahmad Durrani, senior officers of ECP, attended the meeting. Following the official publication of the final census data by the commission, the delimitation of new national and provincial constituencies in the country, its various modalities and implications were considered in the meeting. It was decided at the meeting that the commiss