Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has decided to call next meeting of its Central Executive Committee in Lahore next week to further deliberate on general elections, delimitations and the country’s overall political situation.
Sources privy to the development toldmedia that PPP CEC summit is likely to be held in the first week of September. However, the final date of the CEC meeting was yet to be finalised by the party leadership.The meeting will be attended by the top leadership of the party including former president Asif Ali Zardari, party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
The meeting would be briefed on party’s recent meeting with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) regarding elections, say sources. The CEC will mull over various options including organising All Parties Conference (APC) and engaging with other political parties on delay in polls matter, they say. In its CEC meeting held in Karachi recently, the PPP formed a 5-member committee comprising Syed Nayyar Bukhari, Sherry Rehman, Faisal Karim Kundi, and two others on early polls. PPP reiterates call for timely elections
Earlier, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Tuesday reiterated its demand for holding of next general elections within the constitutionally mandated 90-day period in a meeting with Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) officials. Talking to journalists on Tuesday following meeting with ECP, PPP leader Nayyar Bukhari said that Article 224 of the Constitution mandated a timeframe for elections following an assembly’s dissolution and that it should be acted upon.
