After new election laws were enacted last year, 122 political parties qualified for enlisting with the ECP. Almost a month after the expiry of this timeframe, 42 political parties are yet to file their annual statements. The ECP issued a list of these political parties and shared with the media its show-cause notice it sent to these political parties. Although the Elections Act of 2017 changed formalities for enlisting political parties with the ECP, it still did not come up with a tangible criterion for discouraging non-serious political entities. This effectively helped bring down the number of registered political entities, but 122 political parties were still registered with the ECP.

Source: The Express Tribune September 27, 2018 18:00 UTC