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New Delimitation: ECP to Announce Strategy Within Week

Islamabad (October 27, 2017): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced to unveil its strategy regarding new delimitation of constituencies for next general election within next seven days.

Briefing media after a high level meeting of ECP held here with Chief Election Commissioner in the chair, Secretary ECP Baber Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad said that the CEC had given Secretary Statistics Division and Secretary Law the task to do the initial work regarding the delimitation within a week.The meeting, which mulled over delimitation of constituencies in the wake of 6th population census and preparation of electoral rolls, was also attended by Secretary Statistics, Chief Statistician of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics and Secretary Law among others high ups of the ECP including all its four provincial members.Secretary ECP in his briefing said that the exercise of delimitation and preparation of updated electoral rolls would cost Rs4 billion.

He made it clear that removing the legal and constitutional hindrances in the way of delimitation was government’s responsibility.

He said that Secretary Law and Secretary Statistics Division had assured the ECP of government’s complete cooperation for delimitation exercise and preparation of new electoral rolls.

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