Poll petitions’ disposal picks up, but still sluggish

ISLAMABAD: Election tribunals have picked momentum in deciding poll disputes, but still could only decide 27 per cent of petitions. With the legal deadline to decide poll petitions within 180 days having lapsed long ago, election tribunals decided 51 petitions between Nov 16, 2024 and Dec 31, 2024, bringing the total of decided petitions to 101 or 27 per cent of the total cases, according to systematic tracking of election disputes by Fafen, the Free and Fair Election Network.

Fafen has...