Karachi: Election Commission of Pakistan announced schedule for by-polls on six National Assembly and 17 provincial assembly seats which would be held on April 21.

In notification regarding election programme for vacant NA and PA seats where reelection will be organised next week.

According to notification, by-polls will be held on six NA, 12 Punjab Assembly, 2 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly, 2 Balochistan Assembly and one Sindh Assembly seat. Moreover, NA seats from Sindh’s constituencies, NA-196 Kamber Shadadkot-I and NA-207 Shaheed Benazirabad-I, were vacated after Chairman Bilawal Bhutto retained seat he won in Larkana, while President Asif Zardari gave up his seat following his election as head of state.

Subsequently, 23 candidates were contesting by-polls for KP Assembly seats, 154 candidates for Punjab Assembly seats and 12 candidates for Balochistan Assembly seats.

Published in The Daily National Courier, April, 03 2024

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