Islamabad - The Election Commission of Pakistan on Friday decided to convene a consultative meeting of all parliamentary parties on May 31 to finalize the code of conduct for the 2018 general election.
According to the ECP spokesperson, invitation letters had been sent to all the political parties in the parliament.
The ECP has also dispatched copies of the proposed code of conduct to the political parties.
Meanwhile, the ECP reviewed arrangements for the next general election at a meeting chaired by Chief Election Commissioner Sardar Muhammad Raza.
Additional secretary of the commission briefed the participants about preparations for the general election and the members expressed satisfaction over the progress made so far.
The meeting was informed that training of District Returning Officers (DROs) has been completed and those of Returning Officers (ROs) would be completed by the first of next month.
It was told that training of presiding officers and senior assistant presiding officers would begin on 25th of the next month and completed by July 15.
The ECP on Friday received applications from various political parties for allotment of election symbols in line with Election Act 2017.
The ECP has already provided a draft list of polling stations to the ROs for checking and necessary changes. The ROs will publish preliminary lists of polling stations.
Voters of the area can file objections or submit proposals to the DROs with regard to their polling stations.
After disposal of objections, the DROs would publish the final list of polling stations.
Earlier this week, the ECP sent a summary to the president to announce election date from July 25 to July 27.
The president is expected to announce the date on Monday.
Meanwhile, the term of the incumbent government expires on May 31 and efforts are underway to finalize the name of the interim prime minister.
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Khursheed Shah held several meetings to deliberate upon the name of the caretaker prime minister but have so far failed to reach a consensus.
In case both the dignitaries failed to reach a consensus, the issue will automatically be referred to a bipartisan committee of lawmakers to pick a name for the caretaker prime minister.
If that committee also fails to evolve a consensus, the matter will be referred to the ECP, which will pick a name of the interim prime minister from the given list of names.
After that, the interim prime minister will forme his caretaker cabinet for 60 days to hold the general election.