Pakistan to hold elections on February 8

Pakistan will hold delayed national elections on February 8 next year, the country’s election commission said Thursday, as the country grapples with overlapping political, economic and security crises. A caretaker government has been running the South Asian country since parliament was dissolved on August 9. Polls were supposed to have taken place within 90 days of parliament’s dissolution but the ECP said it needed time to redraw constituency boundaries following the latest census.