ECP extends date for submission of Senate poll nomination papers

As the Election Commission of Pakistan announced to extend the date for submission of nomination for the Senate elections till Monday, candidates from all the political parties continued to submit their papers. According to a press release issued by ECP, the date has been extended to facilitate the candidates. As per the new schedule, the list of contesting candidates will be published on coming Tuesday and the nomination papers will be scrutinized on March 17 and 18. The candidates will then be able to file appeals against acceptance or rejection of nomination papers by 20th of this month. The last date for disposing of these appeals is 23. The revised list of candidates will be published on March 24 while the candidates will be able to withdraw their nomination papers by 25. Polling on the 48 seats will be held on March 3 at the parliament house Islamabad and the four provincial assemblies. Despite express their reservations on the election schedule, major political parties of the country – including the ruling PTI, the PML-N, the PPP and the JUI-F –unveiled lists of their candidates who will take part in the polls. The candidates include bigwigs like former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who was disqualified by the apex court on June 19, 2002 for contempt of court, PPP’s Farhatullah Babar and Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and Shibli Faraz, the incumbent ministers for finance and information, respectively.

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