The Election Commission held the government responsible for the delay in delimitation


Islam Abad (94 news) The Election Commission held the government responsible for the delay in constituencies.
The spokesperson of the Election Commission says that the new delimitation was guaranteed, which was not possible in the absence of the official results of the census.
Reacting to the severe criticism by former cabinet members Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Shireen Mazari, Fawad Chaudhry and Farrukh Habib, a statement issued by the Election Commission spokesperson said that the Commission is fulfilling all its constitutional responsibilities, is active in its legal and constitutional responsibilities and has the ability to conduct general elections in accordance with the law and the constitution. should be completed on time.
The Election Commission of Pakistan said that the merger of the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas and the seats of the Tribal Areas 12 By reducing 6 Number of National Assembly constituencies after 272 less than 266 Left, we had guaranteed fresh delimitation which was not possible in the absence of official census results, the Chief Election Commissioner said. 7 May 2020 wrote a letter to Imran Khan drawing his attention to the matter and requesting his intervention to inform the official results, other concerned constituencies including the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs as well as the Secretaries of the Senate, National Assembly and Bureau of Statistics have also been written.
The Election Commission of Pakistan added that reminders were also sent to all the bodies pointing out that delimitation of constituencies is the commission's constitutional responsibility but they cannot proceed until they are formally notified of the final results of the census after which the delimitation process finally began when 7 May 2021 was informed of the results of the official census but was put on hold after the government announced that it would conduct a new digital census, after which the government 30 December 2021 And 21 January 2022 had also written letters urging them to speed up the census process but they did not do so.



