KARACHI, March 27: The Pakistan Peoples Party has expressed serious reservations on the delimitations of constituencies for the national and provincial assemblies announced by the Election Commission on Tuesday.

The PPP’s Karachi coordination committee, which met at Bilawal House on Wednesday, criticised the new delimitations of the constituencies and accused the National Reconstruction Bureau of scattering the PPP vote bank and violating the internationally accepted principles of constituency delimitation such as compactness, natural boundaries, homogeneity, ease of communications and administrative boundaries.

The committee pointed out that one PPP vote bank taluka had been split up in four parts and those four parts had been attached to four different constituencies.

The committee held that the situation after the notification had only confirmed that the actual delimitation had been done by the National Reconstruction Bureau and the recommendations of the political parties manufactured by the establishment had been followed in total.

It added that the denials of the chief election commissioner in that regard were only indicative of the pressure on the office of chief election commissioner.