Voting underway for by polls in 08 national and 03 provincial assembly constituencies
PTI chairman Imran Khan is contesting elections in 7 out of 08 National Assembly constituencies
The voting
is underway for by polls in all the 11 constituencies across the country. The
polling is taking place peacefully as no incident of violence reported so far.
The
by-elections are being held for three seats of national assembly in Faisalabad,
Nankana Sahib and Multan in Punjab; three NA seats in Charsada, Peshawar and
Mardan in KP; and two NA seats in Sindh’s Korangi and Malir. The by polls are
being held for 03 provincial assembly constituencies in Khanewal, Sheikhupura
and Bahawalnagar.
The
constituencies where polling is taking place are: NA-22 Mardan-III, NA-24 Charsada-II,
NA-31 Peshawar-V, NA-108 Faisalabad-VIII, NA-118 Nankana Sahib -II, NA 157
Multan-IV, NA-237 Malir-II, NA-239 Korangi, Karachi-I. The by-poll on NA 45, a
tribal area seat, has been postponed over law and order situation.
The lower
house seats were vacated after NA Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf had accepted the
resignations of PTI MNAs nine on general seats and two on reserved seats for
women.
Moreover,
by-elections are also being held on three Punjab Assembly seats PP-241 Bahawalnagar-V; PP-209 Khanewal-VII,
and PP-139 Sheikhupura-V.
It is
unprecedented in the country’s political history that one candidate, PTI
Chairman Imran Khan, is running for as many as seven NA seats out of eight up
for grabs.
A total of
101 candidates from different political parties and independents are taking
part in the vote: 52 in Punjab, 33 in Sindh and 16 in KP. Around 4.472 million
voters are registered in these constituencies. In Punjab, 1,434 polling
stations have been established, 979 in KP and 340 in Karachi for the voters.
Big number
of police and Rangers personnel is deployed for maintaining law and order on
the polling day. The Pakistan Army is also deployed as stand by force. A
central control room has been established at the ECP head office in Islamabad
which will monitor the voting process across the country.
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