ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's election body today started accepting nomination papers throughout the country from the candidates who want to contest the July 25 general election.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said that the nomination papers from the candidates will be received from June 4 to 8 and then the initial list of candidates will be published.
The scrutiny of the candidates will be conducted until June 14 and appeals against the decision by the ECP will be filed by June 19.
The revised list of candidates will be issued on June 27.
The candidates will be able to withdraw their candidature by June 28 after which a final list will be published on the same day.
Election symbols will be allotted to the contesting candidates on June 29.
The election is expected to pit the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party against former cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.
The July 25 election in what could be only the second democratic transfer of power in the nuclear-armed country's history.
Political turmoil continued to rock the country after former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was ousted by the supreme court in July 2017 on corruption charges and later barred from politics for life.
After Sharif was ousted, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi took over the premiership.
Former chief justice Nasir-ul-Mulk became Pakistan's caretaker prime minister on Friday.
The country experienced its first democratic transition of power in 2013, when Pakistan Peoples Party handed over the power to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which had won the general elections.
Pakistan has been ruled by the powerful army for much of its life since it gained independence 70 years ago.