Over 100 pending cases in courts threaten to delay polls
(WorldNews Pakistan)

ISLAMABAD: Over 100 cases against the acceptance or rejection of nomination papers of national and provincial assembly candidates are still pending with courts, posing a potential threat to the conduct of July 25 elections on time. With polling day about a week ahead, a senior official of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) revealed that as many as 108 cases - with 81 of them in Sindh alone - were pending with high courts, forcing the commission to withhold printing of ballot papers for a large number of constituencies in Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan. The ECP finds itself in a quandary and is set to miss the target of completing printing of ballot papers as...