The E
lection Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday notified Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI’s) me
mbers on the Punjab
Assembly’s five reserved seats that fell vacant following the de-seating of party’s lawmakers over defection. According to a notification, Habkook Rafiq Babbu and Samuel Yaqoob have been declared as me
mbers of Provincial
Assembly of Punjab (MPAs) on seats reserved for non-Muslims. These seats fell vacant due to de notification of PTI’s MPAs Ijaz Masih and Haroon Imran Gill. Similarly, the three notified women MPAs on special seats included Batool Zain, Saira Raza and Fouzia Abbas Naseem.These seats fell vacant due to denotification of PTI’s Uzma Kardar, Aisha Nawaz and Sajida Yousaf over defection. Separately, as many as 525 Revising Authorities (RAs) has been tasked by E
lection Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to dispose of claims and objections of individuals on draft
electoral rolls by Saturday (July 9). According to official sources, as many as 20,159 display centres were established across the country at prominent places including schools, colleges of the division and offices of registration officers, assistant registration officers and display centres at circle level from May 21 to June 30.
Display centres had provided an opportunity to people to register their votes, make correction or remove name from the voter lists, if any. In the display centres, people got theirs and family’s votes registered in their respective areas in case they were not enlisted in preliminary lists. The E
lection Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would start entering verified data in
electoral rolls from July 15
and complete the whole process by July 25. According to official sources, final
electoral rolls for general
elections would be published on August 25, 2022.
