Voting underway for LG elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Peshawar: Voting is underway for the primary part of native physique elections as we speak (Sunday) in 17 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

Voting started at 8 am and can go on until 5 pm continuous. Voting is occurring easily and peacefully in many of the districts of the state. However, a lady presiding officer deputed at a polling sales space in Peshawar was arrested for allegedly rigging her husband.

Around 79,479 policemen and different safety forces personnel have been deployed for safety throughout the LG elections.

The election for the mayor of town council Dera Ismail Khan was postponed following the loss of life of Awami National Party candidate Mohammad Omar Khitab in an assault on Saturday. Security has been beefed up in DIK and different districts after the incident.

According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, 2,507 polling stations have been declared most delicate, 4,188 as delicate, whereas 528 have been categorized as regular.

A complete of 9,223 polling stations and 28,892 polling stations have been arrange for the polling to be held in half the districts of the state.

Elections will likely be held within the remaining KPs subsequent month. In Peshawar, 860 polling stations have been categorized as delicate, 165 as most delicate whereas 224 have been saved within the normal class.

Around 11,000 policemen and personnel of different forces have been deployed for safety throughout the elections in Peshawar.

Besides the police, personnel from the Frontier Constabulary could be deployed at over 200 delicate polling stations within the provincial capital, an official stated. Deployment work has been accomplished in any respect polling stations.

Apart from this, Ababil Squad, Rapid Response Force and different forces can even be on alert in case of any mishap in any space. Police have been directed to not permit branding of weapons, aerial firing or any regulation and order.

For the primary time, policemen from former tribal areas have additionally been deployed in numerous districts of the province for election safety responsibility.

This is the primary time that the LG elections are being held within the erstwhile FATA districts.

According to the ECP, there are a complete of 12.66 million registered voters within the 17 districts, 7.015 are males and 5,653 are females.

37,752 candidates are within the fray for various classes within the first part of polling. Of these, 689 are within the operating to go metropolis and tehsil councils, whereas 19,285 candidates are within the operating for normal councillors, president of village and neighborhood councils.

Apart from this, 3,905 candidates are exhibiting their energy for seats for girls councillors, 7513 for farmer councillors, 6081 for youth councilors and 282 for minority councillors.

As per reviews, 876 ladies councilors have already been elected unopposed in numerous village and neighborhood councils throughout the province. A lot of minority councilors have been elected unopposed.

Presiding officer arrested for rigging in Peshawar

According to a Geo News report on Saturday evening, a presiding officer deputed at a ladies’s polling sales space in Peshawar was arrested for allegedly rigging her husband.

Heavy police contingent reached a polling sales space within the metropolis’s neighborhood council 34, Tehsil Gor Khatri on Saturday evening quickly after leaders and employees of assorted political events protested the alleged pre-poll rigging on reviews of stamping of poll papers. Gone. In favor of PTI candidate

The police took the accused presiding officer and her husband into custody and despatched them to the police station, holding them protected from the offended mob.

Meanwhile, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) took cognizance of the matter and changed all the polling personnel on the affected polling station.

According to Daily Jung, activists of the opposition get together caught polling personnel red-handed on Saturday evening for allegedly stamping the election image of a selected get together’s candidate for the Mayor City Council slot.

The protesters tried to enter the polling sales space however have been saved outdoors by the police. On this they blocked the adjoining street and began shouting slogans.

During this, the involved Assistant Commissioner additionally reached the spot.

PPP chief accuses PTI of rigging

Speaking to Geo News on the incident, PPP’s Nighat Orakzai claimed that PTI employees have been casting 5,000 “fake votes” in favor of their candidate.

“The [PTI members] have been casting pretend votes since morning […] The Assistant Commissioner has stated that the involved returning officers will likely be punished.

Opposition enjoying tips: KP CM

Meanwhile, Special Assistant to KP Chief Minister Information Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif stated that the opposition is enjoying tips to allay the concern of failure within the elections. He stated that all the polling personnel have been deployed on the behest of the ECP.

He stated that the ECP is an autonomous physique and is liable for conducting free and truthful elections.

He stated the federal government was discharging all its obligations to conduct the elections in a peaceable method and would guarantee a probe into the alleged pre-poll rigging.