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Election schedule to be declared on time, ECP tells Peshawar High Court

Report in Dawn, December 6th, 2023PESHAWAR: 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…

Over half of all polling stations deemed ‘sensitive’

by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, September 27th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Around 55 per cent of the polling stations to be established for the upcoming general polls, planned to be conducted in the last week of January next year, have been identified as ‘sensitive’, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary Omar Hamid Khan told a Senate panel on Tuesday. Moreover, the ECP secretary said the preliminary delimitation would be published on Sept 27. However, a period of…