Report in Dawn, December 6th, 2023
PESHAWAR: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday informed the Peshawar High Court that under the law, the schedule of general elections was to be declared at least 54 days ahead of the Feb 8 polling day, so it still had many days to do so.
The court directed it to produce the election schedule after its formal announcement.
The directions were issued by a bench consisting of Justice Abdul Shakoor and Justice Syed Arshad Ali during the hearing into a petition filed a few months ago against the delimitation of the countrywide constituencies by the ECP as well as its “steps to delay” general elections.
The petition was filed by lawyer Naeem Ahmad Khattak in August challenging the ECP notification for delimiting constituencies and seeking orders for protecting the election period specified by Article 224 of the Constitution. The petitioner later filed an application in the main petition seeking the court’s orders for the ECP to announce election schedule……
Lawyer for the ECP Mohsin Kamran Siddique …..said that the commission had declared Feb 8 as the polling day and under the Elections Act, 2017, it still had many days to announce the election schedule…..
https://www.dawn.com/news/1795418/election-schedule-to-be-declared-on-time-ecp-tells-peshawar-high-court
