KPK govt has one month to prepare for LB polls, SC

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The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has completed the delimitation for the local government elections while the Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed the provincial government to make arrangements for elections in one month.

Three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani heard the KPK LB elections case on Tuesday.

KPK Advocate General Latif Yusufzai told the court that the provincial government has completed delimitation process.

He said that the KPK government has also issued the schedule of rules and regulation of LB elections. He said that the KP government has implemented Supreme Court’s decision of March 10.

The SC bench directed the provincial government to complete arrangements for holding the LB elections in one month.

Latif Yusufzai said the KPK government was waiting SC’s decision regarding delimitation in Punjab and Sindh.

Upon this, CJ Tassaduq Hussain Jillani said that the court decision about delimitation in Punjab and Sindh will be announced as soon the KPK completes arrangements for the elections.

The court adjourned the hearing of the case for indefinite period.