ISLAMABAD It was reported that the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to provide its response and give the reason the court cited for re-polling the chairman’s seat in the local body elections that took place within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
The three-member apex court led by the chief justice of Pakistan Justice Umar Ata Bandial, conducted the hearing on pleas against the ECP’s decision to re-poll.
During the hearing CJP Bandial remarked that the institutions of the state should be free in their decisions, and that they shouldn’t be under any sort of pressure.
“We would like to define the authority for ECP,” he said. ECP,” he said.
Advocate Kamran Murtaza, a lawyer from the court of supreme appeal that the commission of elections had given an order to conduct a re-poll following the results of the tehsil Sarai Naurang of district Lakki Marwat was to be stopped due to the worsening law and law and order.
Lawyer for the petitioner Latif Khosa told the court that voting at only one polling place was not normal, but the voting was as normal throughout the polling stations.
This Justice Mansoor Ali Shah asked Khosa about his view on the firing incident at the entrance of the women’s voting station.