The meeting of the parliamentary committee on appointment of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) members has been postponed, a news outlet reported on Thursday.
According to the report, the meeting the committee was deferred to a later date on the directives of the committee chairman, Dr Shireen Mazari.
The committee, in its meeting to be held at a later date, will consider nominations by the government and the opposition for appointment as ECP members from Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The two ECP members from Punjab and KP — Altaf Ibrahim Qureshi and Irshad Qaiser — respectively, had retired on July 26 after completing their five-year constitutional term.
The prime minister has proposed the names of Ahsan Mahboob, former officer of the Police Service of Pakistan; Advocate Raja Amer Khan of the Supreme Court; and Dr Syed Pervaiz Abbas, a former officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS), for the vacant post of the ECP member from Punjab.
The premier has suggested the names of retired Justice Ikramullah Khan, former PAS officer Faridullah Khan and Advocate Muzammil Khan of the Supreme Court for the appointment of ECP member from KP.
