On court orders, ECP defers by-polls on 37 NA seats.

ISLAMABAD -- The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday called off by-elections on 37 National Assembly (NA) seats following orders by the four high courts, and suspended its election programmes' notifications issued for the by-polls on the respective seats.

The ECP issued four separate notifications to state that the fate of the by-polls would be decided by respective high courts. The commission called off bypolls on three national assembly seats from Islamabad, 24 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one from Balochistan and nine national assembly seats from Sindh province. The electoral body said the decision was taken follow-by Sindh, Islamabad, Peshawar and Balochistan high courts. The by-polls were scheduled to take place on March 16 and 19 after NA Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf accepted the resignations of the PTI lawmakers. The constituencies where by-elections were scheduled included: NA-04 Swat, NA-17 Haripur, NA- 18 Swabi, NA-25 and...