{"id":126926,"date":"2026-06-03T22:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=126926"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:18:55","slug":"gb-local-government-elections-scheduled-for-aug-2-cec-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/","title":{"rendered":"GB local government elections scheduled for Aug 2, CEC says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Web desk(National Times)- Gilgit-Baltistan\u2019s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Raja Shahbaz Khan announced on Wednesday that the region\u2019s long-delayed local government (LG) elections have been scheduled to be held on August 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">General elections for the region\u2019s legislative assembly were scheduled for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1960707\">Jan 24, 2026<\/a>, while LG polls \u2014 announced after a gap of more than 20 years \u2014 were set for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1961401\/after-two-decades-gilgit-baltistan-to-have-local-government-polls-on-feb-14\">Feb 14, 2026<\/a>. However, days after the announcements, both were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1961844\">postponed<\/a>&nbsp;indefinitely due to harsh weather conditions in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, Khan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1988514\">said&nbsp;<\/a>the GB Election Commission was preparing to hold the elections but had not yet set a date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a press conference today, the CEC said that the schedule for GB\u2019s local body polls had been issued, and returning officers (ROs), district returning officers (DROs) and assistant returning officers (AROs) had been appointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said a public notice would be issued by the returning officers (ROs) on June 6, while nomination papers would be accepted from June 9 to 15. The elections would be held for union councils, district councils, town committees, municipal committees and municipal corporations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remaining process was listed in the full schedule, Khan said, adding that the last local body election had taken place in 2004, 22 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDelimitation and demarcation have been completed under the Local Government Act of 2014,\u201d he said further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Khan further stated that there had previously been two systems in GB: a local district council and a union council, with municipal committees in urban areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In place of this, he said, now there would be town committees, municipal committees and municipal corporations in urban areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, political parties in the region were uncertain about holding elections before June but&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1988662\">feared<\/a>&nbsp;that they could be delayed until October. They agreed that holding elections during Muharram, which begins on June 15 or 16 this year, or on other religious occasions such as Chehlum, was not possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Political leaders, therefore, feared that postponing elections beyond June could effectively delay them until September or October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web desk(National Times)- Gilgit-Baltistan\u2019s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Raja Shahbaz Khan announced on Wednesday that the region\u2019s long-delayed local government (LG) elections have been scheduled to be held on August 2. General elections for the region\u2019s legislative assembly were scheduled for&nbsp;Jan 24, 2026, while LG polls \u2014 announced after a gap of more than 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_news","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GB local government elections scheduled for Aug 2, CEC says - Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GB local government elections scheduled for Aug 2, CEC says - Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Web desk(National Times)- Gilgit-Baltistan\u2019s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Raja Shahbaz Khan announced on Wednesday that the region\u2019s long-delayed local government (LG) elections have been scheduled to be held on August 2. General elections for the region\u2019s legislative assembly were scheduled for&nbsp;Jan 24, 2026, while LG polls \u2014 announced after a gap of more than 20 [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-06-03T17:18:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-03T17:18:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-10-2.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"670\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"370\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"humza Jahangir\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"humza Jahangir\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/\",\"name\":\"GB local government elections scheduled for Aug 2, CEC says - Nation\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-10-2.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-03T17:18:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-03T17:18:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/#\/schema\/person\/27efa35fa76e99f3ad7e7397d7332c16\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-10-2.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-10-2.png\",\"width\":670,\"height\":370},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"GB local government elections scheduled for Aug 2, CEC says\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/\",\"name\":\"Nation\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/#\/schema\/person\/27efa35fa76e99f3ad7e7397d7332c16\",\"name\":\"humza Jahangir\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43feedd99bd6a90080d1621b7e6604364acb673ee979d3ffe5075557c14c68b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43feedd99bd6a90080d1621b7e6604364acb673ee979d3ffe5075557c14c68b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"humza Jahangir\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/author\/humza\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"GB local government elections scheduled for Aug 2, CEC says - Nation","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"GB local government elections scheduled for Aug 2, CEC says - Nation","og_description":"Web desk(National Times)- Gilgit-Baltistan\u2019s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Raja Shahbaz Khan announced on Wednesday that the region\u2019s long-delayed local government (LG) elections have been scheduled to be held on August 2. General elections for the region\u2019s legislative assembly were scheduled for&nbsp;Jan 24, 2026, while LG polls \u2014 announced after a gap of more than 20 [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/","og_site_name":"Nation","article_published_time":"2026-06-03T17:18:54+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-06-03T17:18:55+00:00","og_image":[{"width":670,"height":370,"url":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-10-2.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"humza Jahangir","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"humza Jahangir","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/","url":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/","name":"GB local government elections scheduled for Aug 2, CEC says - Nation","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-10-2.png","datePublished":"2026-06-03T17:18:54+00:00","dateModified":"2026-06-03T17:18:55+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/#\/schema\/person\/27efa35fa76e99f3ad7e7397d7332c16"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-10-2.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-10-2.png","width":670,"height":370},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/126926\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"GB local government elections scheduled for Aug 2, CEC says"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/#website","url":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/","name":"Nation","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/#\/schema\/person\/27efa35fa76e99f3ad7e7397d7332c16","name":"humza Jahangir","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43feedd99bd6a90080d1621b7e6604364acb673ee979d3ffe5075557c14c68b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43feedd99bd6a90080d1621b7e6604364acb673ee979d3ffe5075557c14c68b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"humza Jahangir"},"url":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/author\/humza\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126928,"href":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126926\/revisions\/126928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}