Lagatar24 Desk
Islamabad, April 5: Pakistan’s Election Commission has stated that it will be unable to organise general elections within three months due to legal, constitutional, and logistical issues, said the media reports.
Notably, Pakistan’s ailing Prime Minister Imran Khan startled the opposition on Sunday by advocating hasty elections within three months, just minutes after the National Assembly’s deputy speaker dropped a no-confidence motion against him.
Imran Khan then made Pakistan President Arif Alvi to dissolve the National Assembly, which had a total of 342-members.
Meanwhile, the hearing on the deputy speaker’s decision to reject the no-confidence move against Prime Minister Khan, who had lost a majority in the lower house of Parliament, was deferred by Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Monday.
According to Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper, a senior official of the Election Commission stated that the preparations for the general elections would take six months due to fresh delimitation of constituencies, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the number of seats was increased under the 26th Amendment, and bringing district- and constituency-wise electoral rolls in conformity.
The Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen), an independent non-government body, has identified multiple constitutional, legal and operational challenges to the conduct of an early election, expressing grave concern over the recent political developments and ensuing constitutional crisis.
