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PoK Polls

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Delay in PoK polls: PML-N rejects NCOC letter

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Jun 02, 2021, at 12:17 am

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Islamabad: Pakistan's National Command and Operation Centre has suggested postponing the polls in PoK region by two months due to COVID-19 pandemic.

The NCOC wrote a letter to the chief election commissioner of PoK, stating that due to the rise in the number of coronavirus cases in the country, the polls should be delayed, reports Geo News.

The letter said that large political gatherings due to elections will lead to the further spread of the potentially deadly virus in the state, adding that the number of coronavirus positive cases are already high therein.

Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has rejected the suggestion.

PML-N leader and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was quoted as saying by Geo News: "What has NCOC got to do with [the] elections?"

"The same thing that happened in Gilgit-Baltistan is being repeated in Azad Kashmir (POk)," he said.

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