PESHAWAR – Former senator and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Election Commissioner in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Qazi Anwar Advocate has said that party elections will be held in the first week of November, starting at union council level in Islamabad.
“The party voter lists have been finalised to initiate election process from a union council to tehsil level in Islamabad and then in different phases across Punjab, Khyber Paktunkhwa and Islamabad Capital Territories (ICT) region,” Qazi Anwar said while addressing a news conference here at Peshawar Press Club on Saturday. He added that they were in a better position to conduct party elections after completion of voter lists process in the three regions including Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad region, except Balochistan and Sindh.
The party election process would formally be initiated at UC level in Islamabad after Eid-ul-Azha from the second week of November, he informed. A total number of registered voters were around five million only in Punjab, Khyber Paktunkhwa, and Islamabad. Whereas PTI provincial cabinet was dissolved in Sindh, after which voters’ membership and registration process would be initiated shortly. The voter lists would soon be posted at website to confirm members their registration for party elections.
He further said that no member of the national or provincial assemblies declared disqualified from elections under the defined code of conduct, would be allowed to contest party elections.
Qazi also said that the election committees have been constituted across 24 districts of Khyber Paktunkhwa except district Torghar, whereas party membership campaign wasn’t carried out yet due to certain reasons. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, he said has divided in four regions i.e. South, Center (Peshawar), Malakand and Hazara Division.

Where election would be started from Southern Districts DI Khan and Bannu, he informed whereas polls in Malakand, Hazara and Peshawar would be conducted in the last phases.
Criticising Chief Justice Supreme Court of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for visit to Armed Forces Institutes of Cardiology (AFIC) to enquire after health of Malala Yousufzai, he said that there was no need to use the issue for any individual or personal interest. “Our sympathies are with a 14-year girl Malala, but there was a number of other girls deprived of their legitimate rights and justice across the country, he regretted. He maintained that nobody is above the law and constitutional, and Judiciary is not a holy cow to safe from accountability.
Nader Buneri adds: Talking to TheNation, PTI former information secretary Zahid Hussain said that all was set for the party elections from November, adding that the process would start from Islamabad. He said the party would take a start from Islamabad and this model would be applied in all the districts and divisions of the country.