Decision on Daska February 26, 2021 It is always good to see state agencies act as independent bodies. The Election Commission of Pakistan has declared the by-poll held in NA-75 Daska last week null and void and called a new round of polling to be held through the entire constituency on March 18. Further, the ECP has ordered the Establishment Division to suspend Sialkot’s deputy commissioner and district police officer as well as the Daska assistant commissioner, and has also recommended that the Gujranwala Division commissioner and Gujranwala Range regional police officer be transferred from the division. The ECP’s decision has come in the wake of controversial results from 20 polling stations from where presiding officers had disappeared, and where in some cases 80 to 90 percent of votes had been cast compared to the polling station wise average of barely 30 percent. There were also cases of firing and unrest throughout the day across the constituency. On this basis, it has been decided it would be best to hold a completely new election across Daska and not at just the 20 polling stations from where officials carrying ballots had not returned till early the next morning.