ECP continues receiving objections on tribal districts’ initial constituencies draft

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Monday continued receiving objections on the initial draft of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly constituencies of tribal districts belonging to erstwhile Federal Administered Tribal Areas.

According to an ECP official, the commission would continue receiving objections till February 1, while the period of hearing and decisions on the objections would be February 3 to March 1. The final publication of constituencies would be on March 4, and there would be no change in the date of final publication, he added.

It is pertinent to mention here that the ECP had issued the draft list of constituencies, notifying the share of tribal districts belonging to erstwhile Federal Administered Tribal Areas for allocation of seats in the provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A share of 16 seats for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly had been allocated for eight tribal districts in accordance with the provisions of Article 106 of the Constitution as amended vide 25th Amendment and in the light of provisional results of 6th Population Census, 2017 officially published on January 3, 2018 by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

Three provincial assembly seats each had been allocated for Bajaur and Khyber districts, two each for Mohmand, Kurram, North Waziristan and South Waziristan and one seat each for Orakzai district and Frontier Regions.