ISLAMABAD – The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday allottedelectoral symbols to at least 77 parties.
Pakistan Peoples Party has been allotted symbol of “Sword”, PakistanTehreek-i-Insaf was allotted ‘Bat’ symbol, ‘Lion’ to Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz, ‘Kite’ to Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan, and ‘Book’ toMuttahida Majlis-e-Amal.
PML-Q was allotted symbol of “Tractor”, Pakistan Workers Party” Symbol ofVictory”.
National Party and Balochistan National Movement had filed a request for‘Saw’ symbol. ECP assigned it to National Party.The symbol of ‘Bull’ wasdesignated to Pakistan Muttahida Ulema and Mashaikh Council, ‘Human Hand’to Pakistan Awam League, ‘Pen and Ink’ to Awami Muslim League, ‘Lantern’ toAwami National Party.
Earlier, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said that all-out measureshave been taken to hold fair and free general elections in the country.
The spokesman for the Election Commission Nadeem Qasim said in hisstatement that ECP has completed its work simultaneously on delimitationsafter census and preparations for conducting the elections.
He said training of election staff, which includes Returning officers andPresiding Officers, is being completed.The spokesman said that a monitoringwing would be set up by the ECP and monitoring officers would be debuted atevery constituency.
To a question, he said that a new election act has been passed under which,statement of expenditures of every candidate would be scrutinizedthoroughly.