Postpone tomorrow’s presidential election, Achakzai asks CEC

Sunni Ittehad Council presidential candidate Mahmood Khan Achakzai has penned a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner.

He requested, in the letter, to postpone the presidential election, scheduled to be held tomorrow,  till the completion of electrical college. He further said that conducting presidential election without completion of electoral college is violation of law.

Achakzai was of the view that several national and provincial assemblies’ seat are still vacant.

Earlier, Sunni Ittehad Council Chairman Sahibzada Hamid Raza had challenged the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision of not allotting reserved seats to the party in the Lahore High Court.

In the petition filed by the chairman of Sunni Ittehad Council, the Election Commission of Pakistan has been made a party, in which it has been said that the commission is neither a tribunal nor a court.

In the plea, it was said that the Sunni Ittehad Council should get the reserved seats according to the proportion of seats in the Punjab Assembly. It does not matter whether the Sunni Ittehad Council contested the election or not, he added.

It is also said in the plea that the action of the Election Commission is equivalent to amending the Constitution. The decision of the Election Commission is beyond its authority.

It should be remembered that a few days ago, the Election Commission had rejected the Sunni Ittehad Council’s request for reserved seats by four to one.