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ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday announced that local government elections in Karachi and Hyderabad will take place on January 15, 2023.
The ECP announcement came just 4 days after the Sindh High Court verdict in which it had rejected pleas of Sindh government and MQM, and ordered to hold second phase of local government elections in the province as soon as possible.
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It may be recalled that the Sindh government had sought delay in local government polls by 90 days. Joint Secretary Interior Muhammad Ramzan Malik had told the ECP that the ministry could not provide civil armed forces for election duties. He had apprised the ECP that bulk of security forces was still busy in the flood-affected areas of Sindh, he told the bench. “We are not in a position to fulfil the security needs of local government elections.”
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ECP Special Secretary Zafar Iqbal Hussain had informed the bench that polls were initially postponed due to rains but the Sindh government later postponed them for another 90 days.