Chief Court docket orders native authorities polls in Gilgit-Baltistan

A two-member bench of the court docket, headed by the Chief Justice, ordered the authorities involved to carry the native authorities elections in Gilgit-Baltistan as early as attainable.

It’s pertinent to say right here that native residents had filed a petition within the court docket in opposition to extended delay in native physique elections within the space.

Earlier on March 18, Prime Minister Imran Khan had directed holding early native our bodies polls in each Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the place Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) guidelines as he met on Thursday his associates within the authorities.

His directives have been resisted mildly by the protection minister Pervez Khattak who had been KP’s chief minister within the earlier time period, as he cited the polity was not conducive for polls at the moment to which, reportedly, the PM stated come what might the polls have to be held quickly.