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    The ECP needs a new legal framework to better engage with the civil administration during elections. Taking a page from India, the ECP could virtually take control of the entire state machinery from the beginning of the election process until results are announced. The Electoral Reforms Committee will need to show creativity rather than just rephrasing old laws when proposing reforms. Pakistan achieved an important democratic milestone in its first democratic transfer of power between elected governments in 2013, but the next milestone should be electoral reforms to improve elections and take democracy further.

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    The ECP needs a new legal framework to better engage with the civil administration during elections. Taking a page from India, the ECP could virtually take control of the entire state machinery from the beginning of the election process until results are announced. The Electoral Reforms Committee will need to show creativity rather than just rephrasing old laws when proposing reforms. Pakistan achieved an important democratic milestone in its first democratic transfer of power between elected governments in 2013, but the next milestone should be electoral reforms to improve elections and take democracy further.

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    The ECP needs a new legal framework to better engage with the civil administration during elections. Taking a page from India, the ECP could virtually take control of the entire state machinery from the beginning of the election process until results are announced. The Electoral Reforms Committee will need to show creativity rather than just rephrasing old laws when proposing reforms. Pakistan achieved an important democratic milestone in its first democratic transfer of power between elected governments in 2013, but the next milestone should be electoral reforms to improve elections and take democracy further.

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    The ECP thus needs a new legal framework for its engagement with the civil

    administration. There is no harm in taking a leaf from the Indian experience where no
    caretakers are appointed and the election commission virtually takes over the entire state
    machinery, as soon as the election process begins and until the results are announced.
    The Electoral Reforms Committee will have to avoid indulging in rephrasing old laws
    and show some creativity. Readers should be reminded that Pakistan achieved an
    important milestone in its first-ever democratic transition, from one elected government
    to the next, in 2013. The subsequent milestone should not be the next transition but
    electoral reforms as only these can take polls and democracy a qualitative step forward.
    The writer works with Punjab Lok Sujag, a research and advocacy group.
    Published in Dawn, July 29th, 2014
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