- ECP encourages CM to advise governor of KP assembly session.
- CIT’s need for the implementation of Electoral College for Senate’s polls.
- Voting for election of the Senate planned on July 21.
Islamabad: Prior to the upcoming Senate Measurements in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Election Commission in Pakistan (ECP) has informed the provincial governor and chief minister that the notified members of the Provincial Assembly The news Reported Tuesday.
ECP Secretary Omar Hamid Khan wrote letters to Governor Faisal Karim Kundi and Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and called for an assembly session to be immediately called to oath-taking the returned candidates to ensure the completion of Electoral College.
He said the election body is under a constitutional obligation to implement the Senate election in KP, where the date is set for July 21. But he noted that the question of administering oaths to returned candidates was still pending and delayed.
With reference to the SC constitution bench’s judgment, he said on July 2, 2025, a notification of successful candidates was issued in reserved places for women and non-Muslims, but these members have not yet been sworn in so they cannot participate in the assembly session or vote.
The ECP Secretary pointed out that the KP assembly speaker was previously requested on July 4 to manage oath to the members elected on reserved seats. The speaker informed that the collection session is not currently underway; He can’t call a session.
The ECP Secretary maintained that, according to Article 109 of the Constitution, the governor has the power to convene a session with the provincial assembly in his discretion. “In light of the aforementioned constitutional and legal imperatives, I have been instructed by Hon’Ble ECP to request his excellence, the Governor of KP, to exercise the powers assigned in accordance with Article 109 of the Constitution, and to convene the province’s assembly in the earliest to secure administration of the elected members of the elected members of The downfall of senate delivery in the province’s province, ”reads.
In the letter to the Minister of Chief, he said that the Commission, in view of the constitutional and legal imperatives, has also requested the KP Governor to invoke his powers assigned to him under Article 109 of the Constitution to convene the Provincial Assembly to meet for the administration of ED to the members elected by the reserved seats for women and non-Muslims. University of the subsequent supporters and enabled those who enabled those who are drawing to empty.
The Secretary Also Referred That Peshawar High Court Peshawar Has Already Passed the Judgment Dated 27-03-2024 In WP No 1617-P/2024 Case Titled Shazia Tamash Khan Etc. versus Federation of Pakistan etc. Chief Minister KP and The Provincial Cabinet to Take All Material Steps in Terms of Article 105 of the Constitution for Summoning The Session and Administration of ED to the returned candidates on the reserved seats for women and non-Muslims.
Given the above, he wrote “The Commission shall consider it appropriate to request Chief Minister to issue advice to the governor of calling the KP assembly with regard to Article 105 read with Article 130 of the Constitution immediately to secure the administration of ED from the speaker to the elected members on reserved seats to implement the senate’s behavior in the province”. “
