Elections 2024: ECP to hold key meeting on law and order today

With just seven days remaining in the upcoming General Elections 2024, the Election Commission of Pakistan will be presiding over a key meeting on law and order situation in in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan.

The meeting was called after recent surge was witnessed in the last few weeks in attacks on political rallies, offices and candidates.

ECP directed the provincial chief secretary and inspector general of police to submit a comprehensive report on murdered of an independent candidate Rehan Zeb Khan – who was contesting from Bajaur NA-8.

The high-level meeting would be attended by the minister and secretary of interior, chief secretaries, inspectors general of KP and Balochistan, and officials from intelligence agencies, stated in the report.

Moreover, the electoral body also sought out reports on the incidents of firing on a convoy of a political party in Qila Abdullah district of Balochistan in which one person was killed and a grenade attack outside the house of a candidate of PB-25 constituency in Kech district.