ECP members from Punjab, KP retire
July 27, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) members from Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa bowed out on Monday after completing their five-year term.
Though, as per the law, the new members are to be appointed within 45 days, given the political polarization within the parliament and outside, none can predict how much time it will take to complete the five-member Election Commission. Already, the matter of appointment of ECP members from Sindh and Balochistan could not be resolved for at least one year. Under the Constitution, the ECP comprises chief election commissioner and four members one from each province. The two ECP members, who retired on July 26, are Justice (retd) Altaf Ibrahim Qureshi from Punjab and Justice (retd) Irshad Qaiser from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
July 19, 2021
ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel has made a modest start in evolving a consensus on a multitude of amendments in the Elections Act and did not touch the controversial provisions in its inaugural meeting.
The Senate Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs, headed by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Taj Haider, has considered just a handful of the dozens of amendments in the poll law which were hastily passed by the National Assembly last month. The next meeting of the forum will be held after Eidul Azha.
“Confusion prevailed about the exact timing of the start of the session of the committee, which resulted in delayed participation by some of its members in its deliberations,” Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) Senator Kamran Murtaza, who is part of the committee, told The News when contacted.
ISLAMABAD: A retired bureaucrat is in the saddle following the departure of his predecessor as the secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
Sources told Dawn that Umer Hameed, a retired grade 22 officer of Secretariat Group, has assumed his responsibilities as the ECP secretary on contractual basis.
They said Mr Hameed was part of the ECP’s team which attended a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs to discuss two bills seeking sweeping changes to the laws that dealt with electoral processes.
Mr Hameed had earlier served as the special secretary finance, secretary Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and national food security among other important positions.
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