Islamabad, Jan 2 (Prensa Latina) The Pakistani Election Commission again postponed the date of elections, scheduled for Wednesday.
Commission Secretary Kanwar Mohammad Dilshad said the date of elections must be postponed due to delays caused by disturbances after the assassination of ex Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The official announcement on the postponement of the elections will be made on Wednesday after consultations with different political forces, he added.
He noted that it would take at least ten weeks to reestablish the preparations for the elections and to rebuild several polling stations that were destroyed.
Several opposition organizations, including the Pakistani Popular Party that Bhutto led, expressed disagreement with a possible delay of the elections,
According to Dilshad, more than 40 administrative offices in the southern province of Sindh, Bhutto’s political bastion, have been destroyed over the past four days, as well as ballot boxes, ballots and other materials.
At least 38 people have been killed and some 50 have been wounded since Butto’s assassination, as a result of violent outbreaks throughout the country, especially in the province of Sindh.
Benazir Bhutto was killed in a bomb attack in Rawalpindi on December 27, after attending an election rally.