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The court said that the new schedule should be announced after all necessary preparations for the elections including delimitation are completed.
Secretary ECP Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan stated that the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Cantonment Board and Islamabad elections will be held on February 28.
The hearing was adjourned and will resume in the first week of February.
The ECP had filed an application before the Supreme Court on January 6 after decisions of the provinces’ respective high courts had deemed that delimitation in Punjab and Sindh was illegal.
In view of both high court judgements, ECP’s application had said that the Punjab Local Government Act, 2013 and Sindh Government Act, 2013 have to be amended by the respective provinces and fresh delimitation has to be carried out in light of the courts’ rulings and the current schedule did not allow sufficient time to make the necessary preparations.
According to the current schedule, polling in Sindh should take place on January 18 and in Punjab on January 30.
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Local Bodies elections in Sindh & Punjab delayed again. It was supposed to be held in 2008, but feudal-minded politicians kept delaying it.