ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) notified the Supreme Court on Tuesday that reestablished Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ghulam Mahmood Dogar has tendencies towards a specific political party. It could influence his spread out responsibilities expecting him to stay the divisional head during the Punjab elections.
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The ECP has recorded a common different application with the apex court, going to be merged as related with the subsequent requesting and heard as thinking about a veritable concern for esteem.
The picking body presented its appeal for the request to hear Dogar’s exchange case.
The EC battled that it was faulted for a spread-out obligation to guarantee that free and fair elections according to the law and that horrendous practices are prepared for.
Reasons to Assign CCPO During Elections
The constituent guard canine combat that CCPO Dogar had penchants towards a specific philosophical social occasion, and the commission had motivations to recognize that he wouldn’t have the decision to satisfy his spread out responsibilities if he stayed the divisional head during the direct of the assembly elections in Lahore.
The ECP reviewed that the Supreme Court guided the commission in the laborer’s party’s case to go to preplanned lengths to make arrangements for any horrendous practices or even an open door thereof, so the elections are driven genuinely and as per the law.
Clarifications by the ECP
It further presented that the Punjab Assembly was isolated on January 14, under Article 112(1) of the Constitution, and a guarded government was picked on January 22, under Article 224 (A).
It presented that letters were kept in touch with the chief secretaries of Punjab and KP dated 26-01-2023 for the reshuffling of all regulatory officers to guarantee fair elections.
“It is a viewed perspective on the commission that without reshuffling such hardliner officers, free and smooth elections won’t be imaginable according to Articles 218 and 230 and the Elections Act 2017,” the ECP submitted.
