SHC issues notice to ECP
According to Advocate Shah, new delimitation of constituencies had been based on the erroneous figures of the census
Sindh High Court. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued on Wednesday notice to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on a petition regarding the delimitation of constituencies for the 2018 general elections.
A two-member bench heard the petition filed by Advocate Mureed Ali Shah.
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The petitioner claimed that the results of the recent census did not match with data of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The population figures of all the provinces in the current census were erroneous, he maintained.
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According to Advocate Shah, new delimitation of constituencies had been based on the erroneous figures of the census, therefore, such demarcations were not just. He claimed that delimitations were not carried out while taking the proportion of population into account. Some constituencies have population of 100,000 while others have 300,000, he said.
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The petitioner requested the SHC to annul the new delimitations announced by the ECP.
The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued on Wednesday notice to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on a petition regarding the delimitation of constituencies for the 2018 general elections.
A two-member bench heard the petition filed by Advocate Mureed Ali Shah.
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The petitioner claimed that the results of the recent census did not match with data of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The population figures of all the provinces in the current census were erroneous, he maintained.
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According to Advocate Shah, new delimitation of constituencies had been based on the erroneous figures of the census, therefore, such demarcations were not just. He claimed that delimitations were not carried out while taking the proportion of population into account. Some constituencies have population of 100,000 while others have 300,000, he said.
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The petitioner requested the SHC to annul the new delimitations announced by the ECP.