Pakistan will hold presidential elections on September 4 to elect President Mamnoon Hussain's successor at the end of his five-year-tenure, the election commission announced today.
"Presidential election will be held on September 4," the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said as it issued the schedule of the election.
The candidates can filed nominations by August 27 and the final list of contesting candidates will be issued on August 30, it said.
The polling will be held in the buildings of the federal parliament and provincial assemblies.
In Pakistan, the President is considered as a symbol of the federation and head of the state and exercises all powers on the recommendations of the prime minister.
Mamnoon Hussain, elected in September 2013, was a nominee of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led by former jailed prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
Hussain's parents migrated from Agra and settled in Karachi after partition.
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