Parliamentary board on ECP arrangements to meet tomorrow

Parliamentary board on ECP arrangements to meet tomorrow
 

ISLAMABAD: The parliamentary board of trustees on arrangement of Election Commission of Pakistan individuals will meet here on Thursday to examine arrangement of the commission's two individuals.

The board of trustees will consider selections by the public authority and the resistance for arrangement as ECP individuals from Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The two ECP individuals from Punjab and KP — Altaf Ibrahim Qureshi and Irshad Qaiser — separately, resigned on July 26 in the wake of finishing their five-year sacred term and the lawful cutoff time for arrangement of their replacements inside 45 days terminated on September 9.

The executive has proposed the names of Ahsan Mahboob, previous official of the Police Service of Pakistan; Advocate Raja Amer Khan of the Supreme Court; and Dr Syed Pervaiz Abbas, a previous official of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS), for the empty post of the ECP part from Punjab.

For the arrangement of ECP part from KP, the head has proposed the names of resigned Justice Ikramullah Khan, previous PAS official Faridullah Khan and Advocate Muzammil Khan of the Supreme Court.

Head of the Opposition in the National Assembly and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shehbaz Sharif has proposed six names for ECP part from Punjab and three from KP.

The names of resigned equity Tariq Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Javed Anwar, resigned equity Mushtaq Ahmed, Khalid Masood Chaudhry, Irfan Qadir and Irfan Ali have been proposed for ECP part from Punjab, though Syed Afsar Shah, Sardar Hussain Shah and Sohail Altaf have been selected for ECP part from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Thursday's gathering of the parliamentary board of trustees will be led by Human Rights Minister Dr Shireen Mazari. Protection Minister Pervez Khatak, Minister for National Education and Vocational Training Shafqat Mehmood, Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar, Railways Minister Azam Swati and Senator Naseebullah Ullah Bazai will go to the gathering from the public authority side.

Rana Sanaullah, Shiza Fatima Khawaja, previous executive Raja Pervez Ashraf, Shahida Akhtar Ali and Sikandar Mandhro will address the resistance at the gathering.