All ECP centers displaying electoral lists to remain open today and tomorrow

All ECP centers displaying electoral lists to remain open today and tomorrow

ISLAMABAD:All display centers of voter lists, information and complaint centres of Election Commission established across Pakistan will remain open on today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday).

According to ECP, the decision to keep these centres open on holidays has been taken to facilitate masses and instructions have been issued in this regard.

Monitoring teams of the Election Commission will visit various centers established in different districts of the country.

Meanwhile, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to appoint Judicial Officers of lower courts as District Returning Officers (DROs) and Returning Officers (ROs) for the next general elections.

According to ECP, the Commission has written letters to Registrar High Courts and has asked them to provide lists of District and Sessions Judges, Additional Session Judges, Senior Civil Judges and Civil Judges for the purpose.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Election Commissioner Pir Maqbool Ahmed says two thousand five hundred and forty-five display centers have been established for the registration and correction of voters lists across the province and FATA.

Briefing media men in Peshawar on Friday, he said more than fourteen thousand officials have been deputed in these centers for rectifications of voters lists.

Provincial Election commissioner said that so far more than one hundred and seventy million voters have been rectified.

The rectification process will continue till 26th of next month.

Pir Maqbool Ahmed urged the media to play their role to inform the public about the rectification campaign. APP/AFP