Summary Khurshid Shah said that LB elections in haste will cast doubts on the credibility and transparency.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Leader of the opposition Syed Khurshid Shah has opposed local government elections, saying that preparation of ballot papers from private printing press is unacceptable.
Addressing the National Assembly on Thursday, Khurshid Shah said this process will raise question mark on the credibility of the Election Commission.
He said holding local bodies elections is a political issue and it should be handled politically.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi also backed the opposition leader, saying that schedule given by the Election Commission for Local Bodies elections is not implementable as the provinces have to undergo delimitation of constituencies.
Earlier, The National Assembly today (Thursday) unanimously passed a resolution saying that the recently announced schedule of the Local Bodies Elections by the ELection Commission of Pakistan is practically difficult to deliver free and fair elections.
The resolution moved by Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that conducting local bodies elections in haste will cast doubts on the credibility and transparency of the election results.
