{"id":67138,"date":"2026-11-14T04:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T04:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/?p=67138"},"modified":"2026-11-14T04:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T04:39:41","slug":"islamabad-high-court-suspends-local-government-election-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/2026\/11\/14\/islamabad-high-court-suspends-local-government-election-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamabad High Court Suspends Local Government Election Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67139\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67139\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Request_photo_edit_and_send_64aaa154_2K-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"Islamabad High Court building in Pakistan\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Request_photo_edit_and_send_64aaa154_2K-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Request_photo_edit_and_send_64aaa154_2K-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Request_photo_edit_and_send_64aaa154_2K-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Request_photo_edit_and_send_64aaa154_2K-753x420.jpg 753w, https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Request_photo_edit_and_send_64aaa154_2K-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Request_photo_edit_and_send_64aaa154_2K-696x388.jpg 696w, https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Request_photo_edit_and_send_64aaa154_2K-1068x596.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Request_photo_edit_and_send_64aaa154_2K.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Islamabad High Court hears matters concerning the local election process.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ISLAMABAD \u2014 The Islamabad High Court has suspended the schedule for local government elections in the federal capital following objections concerning constituency delimitation.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the court intervened in the election process after concerns were raised over the delimitation arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>The Election Commission of Pakistan has been directed to submit its response by November 26.<\/p>\n<p>The development affects the electoral timetable for Islamabad, where local government elections had been scheduled for December 20.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s intervention places the election process under further judicial consideration while the relevant authorities respond to the objections.<\/p>\n<p>The next proceedings and the Election Commission&#8217;s response are expected to clarify the future timeline of the local government elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> The Express Tribune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD \u2014 The Islamabad High Court has suspended the schedule for local government elections in the federal capital following objections concerning constituency delimitation. According to reports, the court intervened in the election process after concerns were raised over the delimitation arrangements. The Election Commission of Pakistan has been directed to submit its response by November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1979,1980,1978,1940,1981,1853],"class_list":["post-67138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-ecp","tag-elections","tag-ihc","tag-islamabad","tag-local-government","tag-pakistan-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67141,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67138\/revisions\/67141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}