Pakistan elections will probably be held by end of January, interim PM says


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  • Friday, 22 Sep 2023

FILE PHOTO: A police officer stands guard with the Parliament House building in the background, in Islamabad, Pakistan April 11, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said on Thursday that elections in Pakistan would probably held by the end of January.

Kakar told an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York he understood the process of creating new constituencies by the Election Commission of Pakistan and public consultations on this would probably take another three or three and a half months.

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