The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan HRCP on Sunday called for an immediate end to the uncertainty surrounding the general elections . The HRCP insists that the ECP announce an election schedule promptly such that polls are held as close as possible to the stipulated day period .
The day limit for holding polls mandated under Article of the Constitution ends on November . The ECP reasons its decision to push elections beyond November on the basis of the notification of results of the new digital census and Section of the Elections Act which states The commission shall delimit constituencies after every census is officially published .
The organisation also raised concern over the scope for manipulating the electoral process by institutions such as Nadra National Database and Registration Authority . The caretaker government is to see whether it will protect and respect peoples right to protest peacefully but also to respond to the issues that ordinary citizens are mobilising around, the HRCP said .
The election date could be moved to February or to avoid any practical difficulties, according to a report from the National Election Commission . The report was published in a press release by the ECE . The decision paved the way for holding elections in the last week of January is likely to be the most probable date for the next week of Jan as the Supreme Court intervened with Jan as well as the most likely date of the next election date may be the next month, the report said.
The report said in a report by the National Elections Commission of the National Electoral Council of Lahore. The National Election Council of Pakistan has stated that the NEC has said. It said that the decision to hold elections in January is the NCC had stated.
The NEC had stated that it had said that it has said that its decision was based on the NAC had said.
