ECP stops PM Imran Khan from visting Peshawar

In a letter penned by the Peshawar regional election commissioner, the PM was advised that it had come to the ECPs’s discover by means of a information report revealed by Daybreak that the premier is anticipated to go to Peshawar in the present day (Wednesday) to launch the Pakistan Card Initiative.

“[…] your consideration is drawn in direction of directions contained in ECP’s notification No. F. 16(1)2021-LGE-Kp, dated 4th November, 2021 […] relating to restriction on visiting the world of any native council and saying any growth scheme after issuance of the election schedule,” the letter learn.

It referred to the related provision of ECP’s Code of Conduct, limiting the president, prime minister, speaker, deputy speaker of any meeting, chairman and deputy chairman of any Senate, federal or provincial ministers, chief ministers, advisers to the prime minister or any holder of a public workplace from visiting an space the place an election is being held.

The ECP officers cautioned PM Khan towards a violation of the Code of Conduct and stated that the Fee would, in any other case, take authorized motion towards him below the Election Act, 2017.

Particular Assistant to the Prime Minister on Info and Public Relations Barrister Mohammad Saif Ali introduced that PM Imran Khan’s go to to Peshawar is scheduled in the present day for the launch Pakistan Card initiative, Daybreak reported.

The publication quoted Ali as saying that the initiative was “an vital milestone in direction of the prime minister’s imaginative and prescient of an Islamic welfare state”.

The initiative would embody the federal government’s different welfare initiatives, together with the Ehsaas Ration Card, Well being Card and Kisan Card, he added.
The letter despatched to the premier may be learn under.