{
  "id": 19671579,
  "title": "CEC Raja alleges federal govt wants to 'sabotage' Islamabad local govt polls",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/cec-raja-alleges-federal-govt-wants-to-sabotage-islamabad-local-govt-19671579",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-12T15:51:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn",
    "slug": "dawn",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2044064/cec-raja-alleges-federal-govt-wants-to-sabotage-islamabad-local-govt-polls"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja has accused the federal government of attempting to disrupt the local government elections set for December 20 in Islamabad. The Pakistan Election Commission has scheduled these elections, but the last term for local government officials ended in February 2021. The federal government and the ECP have spent several years conducting delimitation and announcing election schedules, only to postpone the polls. During a recent hearing, Raja claimed that the federal government has ordered teachers would not be assigned duty during the Islamabad LG polls, questioning where the Election Commission would bring staff from. CEC Raja emphasized that local government elections would be held as scheduled, despite the federal government's attempts to sabotage the process.",
  "summary": "ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja on Thursday accused the federal government of trying to sabotage the local government elections in Islamabad, clarifying that the polls would be held as scheduled. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has scheduled the polls for Dec 20. The last LG term expired in Feb 2021, and the ECP was supposed to conduct elections within…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}