Cabinet Greenlights Rs42 billion for ECP: Information Minister

Islamabad: Caretaker Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murtaza Solangi says there is no crisis in meeting the financial needs of Election Commission.

In a tweet on social media platform X today, he said cabinet has approved 42 billion rupees for the budgetary needs of the ECP and notably, 10 billion rupees have already been disbursed.

There is no crisis on meeting the financial needs of the ECP.

The cabinet had approved Rs 42 billion for the budgetary needs of the ECP. An amount of Rs 10 billion was already released.
The ECP has approached to release Rs 17.4 billion out of the budgeted amount.

Whatever…

— Murtaza Solangi (@murtazasolangi) December 4, 2023

The Minister said whatever budgeted amount is needed by the ECP, it will be released as per its needs accordingly.

Murtaza Solangi reaffirmed that the government stands firmly behind the ECP in holding free and fair elections as mandated by Article 218-(3) of the Constitution.