LAHORE: The Punjab election commissioner Saeed Gul has expressed outrage over ‘inadequate security arrangements’ through the federal government throughout the submission of the nomination papers, ARY News reported on Wednesday.
The Punjab EC Saeed Gul expressed outrage over insufficient safety preparations and stated that elections can’t be held without adequate safety preparations.
Sources informed ARY News that the federal government failed to supply adequate safety to the election commissioners and the returning officials (ROs) but. The provincial EC apprised the Islamabad headquarters in regards to the deficient safety preparations.
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The Punjab EC mentioned {that a} aggravating scenario used to be created in RO places of work throughout the submission of nomination papers because the applicants and their supporters have been preventing each and every different. Saeed Gul steered deferring the time table in Lahore.
He stated that untoward incidents have been witnessed throughout the submitting of the nomination papers because the Punjab govt did not supply adequate safety.
Gul stated in a remark that he’ll write a letter to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) headquarters in regards to the prevailing scenario. He added that elections in Punjab are not possible without adequate safety features.
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He recommended the Punjab govt and native administrations to supply safety to the election body of workers.
Following the EC’s reservations, the ECP Islamabad is predicted to take realize.
‘Army, LEAs not available for election duty’
Yesterday, it used to be learnt that the Punjab leader secretary and inspector common (IG) expressed their incapability to supply foolproof safety to polls for the Punjab Assembly without the help of law enforcement companies and the Pakistan Army and because of the rustic’s general financial and law and order scenario.
Defense Secretary Lt. Gen. (R) Hamud-ul-Zaman Khan and Additional Defense Secretary Maj. Gen. Khurram Sarfaraz Khan briefed the Election Commission at the nation’s present scenario, borders, and armed forces deployment within the internal throughout their 3rd assembly held within the fee.
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They stated that because of the present scenario within the nation, Pakistan Army used to be not to be had for election responsibility at the moment. Apart from this, the present financial scenario of the rustic has an impact at the military as neatly. And the federal government might limit the military to acting number one tasks or assign it to secondary tasks, corresponding to election responsibility, because of present stipulations.
Army shall be to be had on Quick Reaction Force (QRF) mode for election responsibility to verify environment friendly reaction to safety considerations throughout the impending elections. However, it gained’t be possible for Army to accomplish election responsibility in static mode.
