Bureau Report
KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday sought recommendations of the Sindh government regarding the date of local government (LG) elections following the orders of the Supreme Court.
The election commission has written a letter to the Sindh Local Government Department for seeking recommendations regarding the date of LG polls and related matters. A session to discuss the recommendations for LG polls in Sindh has been summoned on February 3 by the ECP. It stated that the top court issued directives to the ECP to fix dates for local government elections in all provinces.
Earlier on Thursday, a Supreme Court bench had ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan to fix dates for local government elections within a week. In another development made yesterday, ECP had decided to summon a session in the first week of February for holding consultations over the organisation of local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The election commission will summon a session till February 5 to finalise the schedule of LG polls in KP as the decision to call a meeting had been taken after the approval of KP cabinet for holding LG elections on September 15.
