{"id":44927,"date":"2024-01-07T11:03:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T11:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/kp-governor-urges-ecp-to-address-concerns-raised-by-political-parties-regarding-polls\/"},"modified":"2024-01-07T11:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T11:03:04","slug":"kp-governor-urges-ecp-to-address-concerns-raised-by-political-parties-regarding-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/kp-governor-urges-ecp-to-address-concerns-raised-by-political-parties-regarding-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"KP governor urges ECP to address concerns raised by political parties regarding polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Ghulam Ali has urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to address concerns raised by political parties regarding the February 8 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <em>Dawn News<\/em> programme \u2018Doosra Rukh\u2019 on Saturday night, he said: \u201cIt would be better if the election commission calls a high-level meeting of these political parties before the elections or a few days after them, and takes action after hearing their concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His statement comes amid reservations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1803458\/amid-thin-attendance-senate-passes-resolution-seeking-delay-in-elections\">voiced<\/a> by certain political circles on holding general elections on Feb 8, as scheduled by the election commission, due to security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1803458\/amid-thin-attendance-senate-passes-resolution-seeking-delay-in-elections\">passed<\/a> a resolution, moved by independent Senator Dilawar Khan with only 15 lawmakers in attendance, seeking to delay the polls due to security concerns.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1803596\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>However, the passage of the resolution was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1803596\">roundly criticised<\/a> by various political parties, while the caretaker information minister had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1803596\/all-sides-united-in-their-opposition-to-poll-delay\">insisted<\/a> that there was no directive of the prime minister or the federal cabinet for a delay. The Supreme Court was also subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1803842\/sc-approached-to-declare-senate-resolution-illegal\">approached<\/a> to declare the resolution illegal and act against its backers.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Senator Mushtaq Ahmed submitted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1803680\/fresh-resolution-lands-in-senate-demanding-timely-general-elections\">fresh resolution<\/a> in the upper house, emphasising the need to ensure the timely conduct of the polls.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview last night, Governor Ali stated that it was the provincial government\u2019s duty to \u201cimprove the law and order situation and protect the people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said the federal government and state institutions were also responsible for the same, highlighting that the army had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1801529\">agreed<\/a> to deploy troops and provide the requisite support.<\/p>\n<p>The KP governor mentioned the issues of \u201claw and order, 18-hour-long load-shedding, and toughest winter\u201d that were hindering polls. He said the reason why people were questioning whether the elections would take place or not was that a \u201ctempo is not being created\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other areas where there is winter as well as snow \u2014 including Naran, Kalam, Swat and Chitral \u2014 people there say how will we encourage our votes to come out [and vote],\u201d Governor Ali said, adding that there were reports forecasting snowfall in Peshawar as well.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he heard these concerns and told people that the date for the polls had been officially announced now. Ali further stated that none of the parties he had talked to \u201cwanted the elections to not take place\u201d but rather their \u201cdemand was for peace and protection\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ali said it was his \u201crespectful request and suggestion\u201d to the ECP to sit with the political parties and \u201cconvince\u201d them how it could provide them protection.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the constitutional timeframe of polls being held within 90 days of the National Assembly\u2019s dissolution had passed \u201cso elections should take place\u201d but the reservations should be considered.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said Peshawar was facing the \u201ctoughest winter\u201d and asked, \u201cWhich voter would come out [of their homes] in this situation?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Ghulam Ali has urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to address concerns raised by political parties regarding the February 8 general elections. In an interview with Dawn News programme \u2018Doosra Rukh\u2019 on Saturday night, he said: \u201cIt would be better if the election commission calls a high-level meeting of these political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/01\/07141832e889f28.jpg?r=142302","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}