ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was underway on Tuesday over the holding of local government elections, DawnNews reported.

Chaired by Additional Secretary ECP Sher Afgan, the meeting was reviewing preparations for the holding of local government polls and was also looking at the concerned laws in the four provinces.

Officials from the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), the Printing Corporation of Pakistan, local government secretaries of the four provinces and other important officials were present at the meeting.

The meeting comes a day after the Supreme Court expressed its dissatisfaction with an explanation by the ECP that the announcement of a date for local government elections was possible only after the provincial governments provided it with tools to make arrangements for the polls.

“What we can say is that the ECP is not interested in holding the elections,” Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had observed on Monday during the hearing of a case relating to the local government polls.

Afgan who had given the explanation on the ECP’s behalf said the tools needed were: notifications about the local government laws, election rules and delimitation of union councils and wards by the provinces.