Sources from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday said that the commission was "prepared" to conduct general elections by October, reports The Express Tribune.
They said that the ECP completed the work of delimitation of constituencies and eliminated any objections regarding them. "Work has been completed in all constituencies for all national and provincial seats," a source said.
Earlier the commission had assured the Supreme Court that it would complete constituencies' delimitations by August 4.
According to the sources, the ECP will publish the voter and constituencies lists by the end of this month.
Meanwhile, The PTI on Thursday withdrew the reference against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja, soon after filing it with the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) to add more evidence to it against the commissioner.
PTI leader and former information minister Fawad Chaudhry, while talking to journalists in the federal capital, said that the party has decided to add more evidence to the reference to make it more concrete.
Points related to the alleged change in the ECP's verdict on prohibited funding against the PTI would be included in the reference, he added.
Chaudhry said that the party would file the reference against the head of the election body after adding more legal points to the petition.
The PTI filed a reference with the JCP, seeking the removal of CEC Raja citing his "continuous deliberate misconduct", a day after the election commission's verdict on the foreign funding case, stating that the party had received prohibited funding.
The PTI leader hinted at approaching the Supreme Court of Pakistan for PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif's return to Pakistan.
Speaking during an interview with Urdu News, Chaudhry said that the PTI will approach the Supreme Court and might ask the court to take an action against the "fake affidavit" submitted by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for the return of his elder brother, Nawaz, after treatment.
