ECP says all measures taken to hold ‘free and fair’ elections

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) says all-out measures have been taken to hold fair and free general elections in the country.

Spokesman to the Election Commission Nadeem Qasim said that ECP had completed its work simultaneously on delimitations after census and preparations for conducting the elections.

He said training of election staff, which includes Returning officers and Presiding Officers, is being completed.

The spokesman said that a monitoring wing would be set up by the ECP and monitoring officers would be deputed at every constituency.

To a question, he said that a new election act has been passed under which, statement of expenditures of every candidate would be scrutinized thoroughly.

President Mamnoon Hussain last week signed a summary deciding that general elections for the national and four provincial assemblies will be held in the country on July 25.

ECP had sent a summary to President Mamnoon Hussain, proposing three dates for holding the upcoming general elections. The commission proposed three date from July 25 to July 27 for the president to decide.

The five-year constitutional term of the National Assembly and the Punjab Assembly will end on May 31 while the Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan assemblies completed their terms on May 28.

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