The Election Commission of Pakistan is expected to get a briefing from its law wing today on the question of whether the Sunni Ittehad Council, which now contains nearly all PTI-backed independents in the National Assembly, will be granted reserved seats in the lower house of parliament.

The ECP failed to meet the legal deadline for uploading key result-related documents on its website on Thursday.

Moreover, it seems unlikely that the process will be completed any time soon, with a senior ECP official claiming that uploading over 90,000 Forms 45s on its website would be a time-consuming exercise.

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