ECP appointment: Parliamentary committee to meet today

ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee will meet today for the appointment of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in the Parliament House.

Meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner will be also held in the Parliament House today.

The committee will review nominations for the appointment of members of the ECP from Sindh and Balochistan forwarded by the treasury and the opposition.

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The government and opposition have forwarded their nominations for appointment of ECP members to National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser and Senate chairman Muhammad Sadiq Sanjarani.

Consequently, they forwarded these nominations to the Parliamentary Committee for consideration.

Justice (Retd) Sadiq Bhatti, Justice (Retd) Noorul Haq Qureshi and Abdul Jabbar Qureshi were recommended for ECP members from Sindh and Dr. Faiz Kakar, Naveed Jan Baloch and Amanullah Baloch for a member from Balochistan.

The government was required to appoint their successors within 45 days of their retirement.

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The delay was caused by disagreements between the government and opposition on the appointment of ECP members as meetings of a parliamentary committee comprising members from both sides ended in a stalemate.