Judges appointed in all 10 GB districts to hear delimitation objections
The Election Commission notification names a sessions judge or additional sessions judge in each district, including Skardu, Ghanche, Shigar and Kharmang, before local government polls.
The Election Commission of Gilgit-Baltistan has appointed a district and sessions judge or an additional district and sessions judge in each of the region's ten districts to hear and decide objections to constituency delimitation for the local government elections.
Chief Election Commissioner Raja Shahbaz Khan, who holds the Tamgha-e-Shujaat, issued the notification, according to the commission.
The appointed authorities are empowered to hear and decide objections filed against the delimitation of union councils, district councils and municipal committees in their districts, as carried out by the delimitation committees.
In Baltistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Yousaf will hear the objections in Skardu, District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Ishaq in Ghanche, District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Faisal in Shigar and Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Sharif in Kharmang.
In the other six districts, Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Zakir has been appointed for Gilgit, Additional District and Sessions Judge Hajeebullah for Diamer, District and Sessions Judge Luqman Hakeem for Ghizer, District and Sessions Judge Minhaj Ali Raja for Astore, District and Sessions Judge Zia-ur-Rehman for Hunza and District and Sessions Judge Minhas Hussain for Nagar.
Copies of the notification have been sent to the relevant judicial authorities, the Chief Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan, the deputy commissioners and other concerned government departments and officials.
The Public Relations Department said the appointments were meant to put in place a legal and administrative mechanism for hearing and deciding objections raised during the delimitation process for the local government elections.
The notification did not set out a date by which objections must be filed in any district, and the commission has not announced a schedule for the local government polls in the same order.
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