[Dawn] Four months since they were set up, none of the 14 election tribunals across the country has adjudicated upon a single complaint against alleged poll rigging in the 2013 general elections. Some 400 such complaints are pending in the tribunals.The law requires the tribunals to decide the cases within 120 days, but this has never happened in the electoral history of the country.
This time there were hopes that the cases would be adjudicated upon within the stipulated period as the tribunals comprised retired judges who were to hear the cases on day-to-day basis free from the pressure of routine judicial workload.
Five election tribunals were appointed in Punjab and three each in the other provinces on June 3. These tribunals comprising retired district and sessions judges have been drawing salaries equivalent to BPS-22 officers since May 1, 2013, but have not decided a single case.
Only two of the total three tribunals in Sindh have reached the stage of ordering biometric verification of voters in around eight constituencies in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
and Sukkur.