and PTI - in the forthcoming by-polls. While the PML-N has not aired the demand of the deployment of the army for the election duty, the PTI has been vigorously highlighting it.
The acceptance of the PTI demand by the ECP is unlikely to shave off its hostility and lack of trust in the electoral body because in any case it wants the exit of the ECP members. But the ECP that includes the same four ECP members has taken the instant decision. With the same composition, the ECP had organized the local polls in KP and the subsequent by-election to NA-19.
PTI Chairman Imran Khan emitted fire for days when the Supreme Court suspended a ruling of the Lahore High Court (LHC) that had declared null and void a clause of the election code, which had barred the federal and provincial lawmakers, the president, the prime minister and chief ministers and their cabinet members from campaigning in the elections.
Although the PTI chief was satisfied and relaxed after the LHC permitted the lawmakers to take part in the electioneering, his anger towards the ECP has not come down as he is going ahead with his October 4 public meeting in Islamabad.
The Rangers had been given the election duty in the by-poll to NA-246 Karachi that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) had convincingly won and the PTI had lost. Due to the presence of the paramilitary force, there were no hue and cry about the fairness and transparency of the by-elections. Same was the case about NA-19. There is a strong likelihood that the involvement of the army and Rangers in the Punjab by-elections will finish the chances of protests mainly by the PTI about the elections.
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