[🇵🇰] Pakistan General Elections -- 2024

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ANP suspends basic membership of members over violations of party discipline​

The Awami National Party (ANP) has suspended the basic membership of several individuals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for violating the party discipline.

According to a statement, the affected members had supported candidates other than those officially endorsed by the party for the general elections.

The termination of their memberships was approved by Chairman of the Provincial Election Commission, Shakeel Bashir Khan Umarzai, in consultation with the ANP’s district officials.

 

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Voters with expired identity cards can cast votes, says ECP​

Voters with an expired national identity card can cast their votes in the upcoming general elections on February 8, APP reports.

Spokesman of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) KP, Sohail Ahmad told APP that all voters whose identity cards have expired are eligible for casting votes.

However, all voters must take their original identity card to the polling station, otherwise they will not be allowed to exercise their right of franchise, he said.

He said the ECP took this decision to allow the participation of hundreds of thousands of voters in elections.

A large number of people were approaching and asking about their eligibility due to the expiry of the identity cards, he added.

 

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Gallup survey shows record-high pessimism ahead of elections​

A Gallup survey shows that seven in 10 Pakistanis “lack confidence in the honesty of their elections”.

Moreover, an unprecedented 70 per cent said that they think the economic conditions in the country were getting worse.

The survey notes that a clear majority of Pakistanis (88pc) believed corruption within the government is widespread, on par with the figure from 2022 (86p), which was a record high for the country.

 

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