NA-249 by-election: ECP hears Miftah Ismail’s recount plea

Ismail, final week requested the chief election commissioner (CEC) to take emergency steps for taking custody of the NA-249 by-election report.

A four-member fee of the ECP headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja listening to the plea. PML’s Miftah Ismail, Marriyum Aurangzeb and Muhammad Zubair have reached the ECP headquarters, whereas legal professionals of each Pakistan Folks’s Celebration and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz haven’t reached but.

In his software, Miftah sought emergency motion by CEC to grab sealed poll papers and different election materials utilized in NA-249 by-polls. He had said in its plea that the election materials needs to be stored at a safe location till the emergence of the ultimate results of the by-polls.

He demanded CEC to maintain the election materials in a secure location below the supervision of Rangers or the Pakistan Military. He thanked the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) for issuing a keep order on the outcomes of NA-249 by-election.

Ismail claimed that almost all of presiding officers (POs) and election employees belong to the Sindh authorities which illegally supported the provincial authorities and every political get together has registered their complaints towards it.