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Shahbaz had on March 2 announced that he would be regularising as many as 100,000 government employees from grade one through 16.
ECP took notice of this announcement has given the chief secretary three days to submit their official response.
The ECP in the letter said that "almost a fortnight before completion of the term of assemblies and just before holding of general elections, such action tends to potentially influence the results of elections."
BISP under scrutiny
The ECP also sent a formal letter to the Pakistan Peoples Party regarding the Benazir Income Support scheme.
According to the ECP, loans given out before upcoming elections may be seen as a questionable scheme and requires clarification.
The PPP has been allowed three days to submit a formal response.
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This is not the time to regulate the employees. Punjab Govt. is busy spending all left money on expensive advertisement campaigns.
All these old horses have to go.
ECP should also take action against shifting billions of rupees from flood relief fund to PMs constituency in Gujjar Khan.
Present governments claim that since the election date has not been announced, they can deal with administrative work but this is general concept, to influence the voters.
Its election stunt....pure and simple..............why any clarification is required. Steps like these should be stopped by the EC.
At long last, ECP has taken some nominal notice of the pre poll rigging by the Federal and Provincial Governments