Peshawar: Meeting between the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) team and Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( KP) Haji Ghulam Ali at Governor House Peshawar on Wednesday ended without any progress.
The Governor KP had called the ECP team in Peshawar for consultation on dates of election in KP.
They exchanged views on holding elections in KP between May 10 to 20.
Sources said that the ECP team and the Governor KP could not reach consensus on the date of elections in KP.
A three-member team of the Election Commission of Pakistan reached here to hold a meeting with Governor KP to finalise a date for the conduct of the general elections in the province following a Supreme Court’s verdict.
The team members included the Secretary Election Commission, Special Secretary, and Director General Law.
The team reached Peshawar in response to a letter written to the ECP by the KP Governor for consultation regarding the fixation of a date for the KP Assembly elections.
It is worth mentioning here that the apex court, in a 3-2 verdict last week, had ruled that elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces should be held within 90 days.
The court, in its judgment, had noted that under the constitution a governor was responsible to fix and announce the election date as soon as he dissolved any provincial assembly.
