The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is getting ready for the next big elections.

The commission is thinking of setting January 28 as the day for the General Elections in 2024, as per Waqar Satti of Geo News.

ECP is set to apprise the Supreme Court (SC) after it sought the commission’s response in a case pertaining to timely elections.

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, earlier this week, during the apex court’s hearing on the issue of timely elections, observed that it was “not possible” to meet the 90-day deadline for holding elections and lamented the lack of preparations of the petitioners.

The CJP’s remarks came as he is leading a three-member bench comprising himself, Justice Athar Minallah, and Justice Amin-Ud-Din Khan to hear petitions filed by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and others, seeking elections within the 90-day constitutional limit.

During the hearing, the SCBA lawyer apprised the court that the “90-day period will complete on November 3″.

To this, CJP Isa inquired whether it would even be possible to hold the polls within 90 days, to which the lawyer conceded that even if the top court gives the order even then it will not be possible to hold the elections within 90 days.

The National Assembly, as well as the Sindh and Balochistan assemblies, were dissolved by the Shehbaz Sharif-led government on August 9.

This was done so the ECP could have enough time to organize the elections within the 90-day limit.

However, the ECP had to wait a bit longer to get everything sorted because they needed to consider the new population census approved by the Council of Common Interest (CCI). This meant they had to do some fresh planning and organization.

The ECP later announced that the new elections would happen in the last week of January 2024. But before they made this announcement, some people had filed petitions in the Supreme Court, asking them to make sure the elections happen within the 90-day limit.

These petitions were filed a while back but weren’t looked at during the tenure of former Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial.