Staff Reporter Peshawar
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday declared that the decision to hold the Neighbourhood and Village Council elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on a non-partisan basis was unconstitutional.
The high court announced this decision in a short ruling while hearing pleas filed by the opposition politicians against the K-P government.
Akram Khan Durrani of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), Inayatullah Khan and Mushtaq Ahmad Khan
of Jamaat-e-Islami and Khushdal Khan, Himayatullah Mayar had filed a petition against the local government election.
The PHC directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to take necessary steps to hold party-based elections.
Following the ruling of the high court, it seemed the local government elections in KP will be delayed as the provincial government has sought time to mull over the decision.
The ECP, which had contacted the KP government after the ruling, had said that it will make a decision regarding the election schedule after consultations with the government.
