The Election Commission of Pakistan has directed all the Provincial Election Commissioners to ensure completion of all arrangements pertaining to the conduct of local body elections in provinces.

To this effect, an important meeting of the Election Commission was held in Islamabad on Tuesday with Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja in the chair.

The ECP reiterated that it is ready to conduct local government elections.

The meeting was briefed that delimitations of constituencies in Islamabad Capital Territory for local government elections will be completed on 16th of this month, Balochistan 10 March, Punjab 22 March, and Sindh 24th March this year.

The meeting was also informed that a project management unit has been established at the Election Commission regarding the use of Electronic Voting Machines.

The Commission directed that all matters related to this project should be given priority to ensure immediate progress in this regard.