- A two member bench of the Balochistan High Court (BHC) comprising Justice Muhammad Kamran Mullahkhail and Justice Nazeer Ahmed Langove took the decision.
- The bench passed this order while hearing the constitution petition filed by an ex-councilor Abdul Karim Langove.
- He prayed to the learned bench to suspend the election schedule announced by the election commission for holding local bodies’ elections in Quetta.
QUETTA: A two member bench of the Balochistan High Court (BHC) comprising Justice Muhammad Kamran Mullahkhail and Justice Nazeer Ahmed Langove has suspended the local bodies’ election schedule announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for Quetta district, here on Monday.
The bench passed this order while hearing the constitution petition filed by an ex-councilor Abdul Karim Langove. The petitioner pleaded in his application that the people have objections over the delimitation done by the ECP in Quetta.
He prayed to the learned bench to suspend the election schedule announced by the election commission for holding local bodies’ elections in Quetta.
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The ECP has announced local bodies’ election in Quetta and Lasbela districts and some constituencies in Zhob, Musakhail, Mastung and Jaffarabad districts on August 28.
The local bodies’ election in 32 out of 34 districts have already been completed in the last week of May.
On June 27, the ECP had conducted the first phase of the local government elections in 14 districts of Sindh.
According to the ECP spokesperson, the commission had made adequate arrangements to hold these elections in a free, fair, and transparent manner.
The polling was started at 8:00 am and continued at 5:00 pm without any break while additional time was given to only those polling stations where the polling process had to stop due to any reason on the request of political parties leaders.
According to unofficial results, the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) took a lead in the first phase local bodies elections.
The Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) stood second, followed by independent candidates. They were followed by PTI and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F). The MQM-P boycotted the elections in Mirpurkhas citing low voter turnout.
There were a few sporadic incidents of violence reported across the by-polls. In Tando Adam, Two people, including the brother of a PTI candidate were killed and at least 20 people were injured in the clashes outside various polling stations.
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