📌 Key Highlights & Quick Takeaways:
- The Election Commission has decided to stop the local body elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, before that the Election Commission had ordered.
- In a meeting presided over by Chief Election Commissioner Sikander Sultan Raja, the order issued by the federal government on November 4 was.
- According to the Election Commission, the order has been applied to other districts apart from the districts allotted in the previous orders.
The Election Commission has decided to stop the local body elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, before that the Election Commission had ordered the local body elections in other districts of KP except emergency.
In a meeting presided over by Chief Election Commissioner Sikander Sultan Raja, the order issued by the federal government on November 4 was considered, under which Article 140A of the Constitution, which deals with the establishment of local governments, has been suspended.
According to the Election Commission, the order has been applied to other districts apart from the districts allotted in the previous orders, due to the order of the federal government, it was not possible to hold local elections in the rest of the districts.
The Election Commission has stopped the steps in connection with the conduct of the elections till further orders.
