Pakistan Elections: Despite security challenges, elections will be held on February 8 only, Commission announced

Pakistan’s acting Interior Minister Gauhar Ijaz on Thursday confirmed that there is no uncertainty over the general elections already scheduled for February 8. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had called a meeting on Thursday to address the deteriorating law and order situation in Khyber. After the security meeting, Ijaz, while speaking to the media, said that despite the recent increase in terrorist attacks in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan, there should be no doubt in holding the elections on the announced date.

He stressed that there should be no doubt about the elections. no matter what happen. The government will ensure that elections are held on February 8. With only a week left for the elections, the country is grappling with the growing threat of attacks by terrorist groups. Unidentified gunmen killed Rehan Zeb Khan in Siddiqabad area of ​​Bajaur district, a violence-hit area in KP. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party led by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced its support to the deceased candidate for National Assembly.

Zeb Khan’s killing came a day after a bomb blast at a PTI rally in Balochistan’s Sibi town, resulting in four deaths and six injuries. Earlier, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has returned the petition challenging the rejection of nomination papers of former Prime Minister Imran Khan for two seats for the general elections to be held on February 8. The top court also directed to remove the shortcomings in the petitions. Jailed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Khan’s nomination papers for two National Assembly constituencies in Lahore and Mianwali districts of Punjab province were rejected last month on “moral grounds and his conviction in the Toshakhana corruption case”. Were given.