Chief Election Commissioner Justice Sardar Muhammad Raza on Monday refused to buy the argument that the general elections 2018 — set to be held on July 25 — should be postponed because it falls in summer when the weather could be too hot in southern Punjab.

The Muttahida Qabail Party and a few like-minded folks had asked the ECP to delay the polls on the basis of the rising mercury in the month of July.

"If the elections are held in the winter season, the residents of Kaghan [a hill station in northern areas of the country] can also argue on the same grounds [to move the elections to summer]," replied Mr Raza using the petitioners' own logic to defeat their argument.