KARACHI: In a meeting with the Pakistani-American business network in the USA final week, chief of navy body of workers (COAS) general Asim Munir assured them that elections “can be hung on February eight”. The army leader’s commentary got here hours before the supreme court verdict on the conduct of polls on February eight became issued on Friday night. the issue turned into raised at some stage in popular Asim Munir’s interplay with distant places Pakistanis at a dinner reception hosted through the Pakistan Embassy in Washington when a businessman posed the query to the army chief. Tanveer Ahmed, a Texas-based Pakistani businessman who was most of the members, quoted the army chief as announcing, “As some distance as I understand trendy elections could be held on the eighth of February.” whilst referring to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) petition, which on the time became heard inside the Lahore excessive court docket (LHC) against the ECP, the navy leader said, “If elections get delayed because of that it won’t be beyond the restriction when Senate elections are to be held,” Ahmed shared. the next Senate elections in Pakistan are probable to be held in March 2024.
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The LHC had suspended the electoral body’s notification to requisition returning officers (ROs) from forms on December 13, which created doubts over the holding of elections on time. however, the apex court docket suspended the excessive court docket verdict and directed the commission to continue as per plan.
