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Election postponed - to be held on 18 February 2008
“In the light of the circumstances, the new date for general elections is 18 February 2008 instead of January 8,” chief election commissioner Qazi Mohammad Farooq told a news conference.
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Pakistan’s Election Commission will decide on Tuesday 1st January 2008 whether to postpone the general election or not. The assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto followed by the violence, especially in the south of the country, has created an atmosphere of uncertainity regarding the elections.
“We have called for reports from the provincial governments and provincial election commissioners on the situation. The reports will reach here by evening today and we will decide tomorrow.”
- Commission secretary Kanwar Dilshad
According to the commisson, ten Election Commission offices had been burnt in Sindh, the printing of ballots in Karachi had been halted and the security in two northwestern regions has raised doubts about voting there.
