ECP gears up for by-elections in over 60 NA seats in March

ISLAMABAD.

 As the schedule for the 27 remaining NA seats will be  blazoned coming week, all pending  choices for National Assembly seats will be held in March, reported The News.   The bean will take place on these seats in the last week of March. With this, all seats vacated by PTI members through adoptions would be filled through by-  pates.   The Election Commission of Pakistan( ECP)  blazoned its schedule for holding  pates on 33 seats first and also participated its plan for 31  further seats. No election will be possible from April till the completion of the  term of NA in the third week of August this time.   sources in the ECP told The News electoral body had stepped up its  sweats for medications for the general  choices in October/ November this time. The sources said that the ECP has got nothing to do with the polling date for the  parochial assemblies when they're dissolved by the sitting government. The commission could suggest some dates in this regard but that isn't binding on the  parochial governors, who are the sole  judges for determining the date.   The commission will be ready for holding  choices of dissolved  parochial assemblies, but certain specialized and  indigenous conditions are to be taken into consideration before taking a decision, the sources said.   The ECP, in its full- house meeting, decided to hold a series of consultations and  reflections on the  forthcoming  pates and  posterior general  choices. The commission has convened a high-  position meeting on Tuesday( Feb 7) to be attended by  principal  registers and Police IGs of Punjab and KPK. They will brief the commission on  choices of  parochial assemblies, National Assembly by-  choices, law and order situation and other issues in their  separate  authorities on the occasion.   Another ECP meeting would be held on the issue on February 9( Thursday). All stakeholders and political parties, including PTI and PML- Q, have been invited to the meeting, sources said.   It'll  bandy all aspects of peaceful  choices of  parochial assemblies,  law of ethics and other  indigenous and legal issues and get their feedback for  icing transparent  choices, the sources said.   Omar Hameed Khan, ECP clerk, while briefing the commission, gave details on arrangements for the  choices of  parochial assemblies of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and by-  choices to 86 constituencies of the National Assembly.   He told the meeting that the  registers of Lahore High Court and Peshawar High Court have been asked to  give services of judicial officers for the  forthcoming  choices. The by-  pates to 31 National Assembly constituencies will be held on March 19. An earlier election on 33 NA seats was  blazoned to be held on March 16.