Senior member ECP Altaf Ibrahim Qureshi. PHOTO: EXPRESS
ISLAMABAD: Senior member of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Punjab Justice (retd) Altaf Ibrahim Qureshi on Friday took oath as acting Chief Election Commissioner (CEC).
Qureshi took charge from Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza who retired yesterday.
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Member of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Election Commission, Justice (retd) Irshad Qaiser administered the oath to the acting CEC.
In the absence of CEC and two ECP members from Sindh and Balochistan, the election commission would not be able to make any decisions. However, the scrutiny committee, investigating funding cases against political parties, would remain functional.
A final name for the CEC would be decided during a parliamentary committee meeting scheduled to take place on December 9.
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Prime Minister Imran Khan has already proposed names of three retired bureaucrats as possible replacement of Justice (retd) Raza. PM Imran’s nominees are ECP Secretary Babar Yaqoob, and former federal secretaries Fazal Abbas and Arif Khan.
The opposition leader in the National Assembly, Shehbaz Sharif, has also proposed the names of Nasir Mehmood Khosa, Jalil Abbas Jillani and Ikhlaq Ahmed Tarar for the slot.
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