ECP refutes postponing local govt elections
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has refuted a news report pertaining to postponement of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa local government elections for a year.
“It was untrue to hold the ECP responsible for delaying local government elections or agreeing to any such delay,” an ECP spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday.
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He strongly denied the news report attributed to K-P assembly speaker wherein the speaker had reportedly said that the ECP has agreed to a provincial government’s proposal to postpone the LG elections in the province for a year as the elections were not possible until next year due to the arising Afghan situation.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 26th, 2021.