{"id":4133,"date":"2026-11-10T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:04:08","slug":"ecp-reserves-verdict-on-local-elections-in-cantonment-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4133","title":{"rendered":"ECP reserves verdict on local elections in cantonment areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday reserved its verdict on holding local government elections in cantonment areas after the Ministry of Defence sought an extension until January 2027 to complete delimitation in two remaining cantonments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A five-member ECP bench, headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, heard the case and expressed concern over delays in holding local polls, saying there appeared to be no logical reason to postpone the local government elections.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Defence officials told the commission that a request to announce the election schedule had been forwarded to the federal government, but no response had been received so far.<\/p>\n<p>They also informed the bench that the delimitation process in two cantonment boards was still pending and sought time until January 2027 to complete the process.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry\u2019s legal adviser and Additional Director General Military Lands assured the commission that the remaining delimitation process would be completed within the requested timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>The chief election commissioner suggested holding elections in areas where delimitation had already been completed rather than delaying the entire electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>However, after hearing arguments from both sides, the ECP reserved its verdict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday reserved its verdict on holding local government elections in cantonment areas after the Ministry of Defence sought an extension until January 2027 to complete delimitation in two remaining cantonments. A five-member ECP bench, headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, heard the case and expressed concern over delays in holding local polls, saying there appeared to be no logical reason to postpone the local government elections. Ministry of Defence officials told the commission that a request to announce the election schedule&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}