ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Election Commission has issued the revised schedule of conducting the second phase of local bodies elections in eighteen districts of the province.
According to a press release of ECP, the districts include Abbottabad, Mansehra, Battagram, Torghar, Kohistan Upper, Kohistan Lower, Kolai Palas Kohistan, Swat, Malakand, Shangla, Lower Dir, Upper Dir, Chitral Upper, Chitral Lower, Kurram, Orakzai, North Waziristan and South Waziristan.
Public notice for the invitation of nomination Papers will be issued by the Returning Officer on the 10th of this month.
Candidates can file their nomination papers from 14th to the 18th of this month.
The polling will be held on 31st March.
Read more: SC suspends PHC’s ruling delaying second phase of KP LG polls
The Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) order to postpone the second phase of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) local government election scheduled for March 27.
A two-member division bench of the apex court, comprising of Justice Ayesha Malik and Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan, announced the verdict while hearing a petition filed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) challenging the PHC order.
On February 4, the PHC Abbottabad bench had postponed the next phase of the LG elections, a decision that was welcomed by the Hazara Province Movement, which vowed to field candidates from every district and village council of the Hazara Division.
