ISLAMABAD: On March 1, the Pakistani Election Commission (ECP) will release the schedule for the presidential election.
As per the suggested schedule, candidates can turn in their nomination documents to the presiding officer by March 2 at 12 p.m.
The Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan provincial election commissioners, as well as the Election Commission Secretariat in Islamabad, are the places where prospective candidates can obtain their nomination papers, according to a statement released by the ECP.
It stated that all of the assemblies will be established by February 29 at which point the electoral college, which is necessary to elect the president, will be finished.
The presidential election must occur within 30 days following the general elections, in accordance with the constitutional obligation stated in Article 41(4).
On Nawaz’s appeal against the Mansehra election results, a decision is pending.
In related news, the ECP postponed ruling on Tuesday about PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif’s appeal contesting PTI candidate from Mansehra’s NA-15 seat.
Following the completion of arguments from PTI-backed candidate Shahzada Gustasab Khan’s counsel, Babar Awan, and PML-N leader Javed Jadoon, a two-member ECP bench led by member from Sindh Nisar Durrani withheld judgment.During the court, the attorney for Mr. Nawaz contended that the results were compiled without the forms 45s of the 123 polling stations located throughout the constituency in remote places.
The attorney added, “There was more vote-rigging and tampering in this constituency than in Daska,” and stated that the ballot boxes were not sealed.
The RO was charged in the case, but he claimed that after being taken to the hospital, he became ill and disappeared, and that vote counting went on until four in the morning. The election was deemed “unconstitutional, illegal, and against election rules” by Mr. Nawaz’s attorney.
Babar Hassan Bharwana, an ECP member from Punjab, asked if he felt the same way about the elections that were held all over the nation. “I am just talking regarding the issues that occurred in the elections held in NA-15,” the PML-N attorney retorted, pleading with the ECP judges to mandate a new election.
Mr. Awan, the PTI candidate’s attorney, contended that the case ought to be forwarded to the tribunal for inquiry if the bags’ seals were broken. There is insufficient proof in the FIR filed against the RO. Since the ECP is neither a tribunal nor a court, it is unable to record testimony.
