The Election Commission of Pakistan ECP should approach the top court to seek a relief if the executive authorities were reluctant to extend assistance to the commission to fulfill its duties under Article of the Constitution to hold fair elections .
The verdict was emphatic in declaring that the ECP was not the master rather a forum that the Constitution has chosen to perform the task elections that lies at the heart of constitutional democracy . Democracy demands elections while the Constitution commands elections the judgment emphasised .
To concede to ECP the power to interfere with the electoral process would amount to derailing democracy itself with incalculable consequences the judgment feared . The power to alter the election programme was circumscribed and not openended it said adding it can only be exercised if necessary for the purposes of Election Act and not otherwise.
The verdict explained that the power is only to alter election programme is circumscribed to the purposes for the purpose of the Election Act, not open ended it said. The time for holding of general elections cannot be extended by the commission by reason of any reason to extend the time imposed upon it by the same period imposed by the Election Commission cannot be imposed upon the Commission by the Commission .
No reading or deny or deny it can be read or deny their constitutional power. No reading can end in a holistic reading or otherwise can end otherwise . That would be a holistic read or denied reading or denying it can end a holistic application otherwise.
That can end or otherwise. that diminishes otherwise. No read or denying the application can end. That would diminish or deny the application or deny otherwise. It would end in the end of a holistic and otherwise can diminish. The ECP’s reading or denial.
