{"id":5659,"date":"2022-01-26T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T11:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=5659"},"modified":"2022-01-26T11:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T11:05:26","slug":"shibli-faraz-asks-ecp-to-keep-its-promise-of-using-evm-in-lg-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/shibli-faraz-asks-ecp-to-keep-its-promise-of-using-evm-in-lg-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Shibli Faraz asks ECP to keep its promise of using EVM in LG polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Science and Technology Minister Shibli Faraz has asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to fulfill its promise of using the electronic voting machine (EVM) in the local government (LG) elections in Punjab and Islamabad, a private news channel reported.<\/p>\n<p>While talking to the media on Wednesday, the minister said the electoral body can procure EVMs from any source if it doesn\u2019t want to get them from a private firm. He said ECP should keep its word of organising the LG elections in Punjab and federal capital through EVM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ministry did its job timely and developed the machines as per the demand of the electoral body,\u201d Faraz said and added that functionality of the voting machine was demonstrated in the Parliament, provincial assemblies, and across the country.<\/p>\n<p>He clarified that the incumbent government doesn\u2019t want to introduce any specific machine. \u201cIt is the constitutional and legal right of the ECP to choose the machine it likes and the government will issue a global tender for the chosen device,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-imran-khan-surpassed-those-in-corruption-against-whom-he-joined-politics-shehbaz-sharif.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PM Imran Khan surpassed those in corruption against whom he joined politics, Shehbaz Sharif<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Faraz said that the law has been enacted that elections in 2023 will be conducted through EVMs while adding that the affairs should progress on daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Science and Technology Minister Shibli Faraz has asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to fulfill its promise of using the electronic voting machine (EVM) in the local government (LG) elections in Punjab and Islamabad, a private news channel reported. While talking to the media on Wednesday, the minister said the electoral body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[491,1527,2733,183,209,246,367],"class_list":["post-5659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-election-commission-of-pakistan","tag-electronic-voting-machine","tag-evm","tag-pm-imran-khan","tag-pml-n","tag-ppp","tag-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}