Dhaka, Dec. 7 -- The schedule for the 13th Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) election and the referendum will be announced this week, said Election Commissioner (EC) Brig Gen (retd) Abul Fazal Md. Sanaullah.

"The schedule for the national election and the referendum will be announced very soon. As the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) has already said, we will declare the schedule at some point within this week," he told journalists after the 10th commission meeting held at the Nirbachan Bhaban in the capital's Agargaon here today. Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin chaired the meeting while four election commissioners and senior officials of the EC Secretariat were also present.

"There are some procedural tasks we must comp...