Following the Supreme Court’s order to hold elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) within 90 days, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday informed about the preparations for the upcoming elections.
The election body said that it has sought the list of polling officers from the district officers. It added that the officers would be trained later on regarding the elections.
The ECP also sent a notification to the provincial election commissioners and ordered them to start preparations for the elections as soon as possible.
Apart from this, the commission decided to train the election officers by next week which will be completed in a couple of days.
The ECP said that the staff will be trained at the Election Commission Secretariat, after which they will further train District Returning Officers (DROs), Returning Officers (ROs) and Assistant Returning Officers (AROs). .
After the completion of the training of the officers, the training sessions of the election staff will begin.
