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Friday, February 03, 2012 2:37:04 PM
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has filed a civil miscellaneous appeal seeking the by-elections scheduled for the Feburary 25 to be stopped. The PTI chief had previouly filed a petition seeking the removal of bogus votes from the current voter lists.
Imran Khan says the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is holding the by-elections without correcting the current voter list.
Earlier, the ECP had categorically stated that the deadline given by the Supreme Court to purge the lists of fake votes by February 23, 2012 was “humanly impossible” and had sought assistance from political parties for extension of the deadline.
The Supreme Court, while hearing Khan’s earlier petition, had observed that elections cannot be conducted based on the old electoral lists and that the ECP should recompile them.
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