PESHAWAR
\nThe Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday handed over election materials to concerned staff and has finalized arrangements for the by-election scheduled on October 16 (Sunday) on three vacant National Assembly seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
\nThe election materials were handed over to concerned staff of NA-31 at Nishter Hall Peshawar and also dispatched to district returning officers of Charsadda and Mardan.
\nThe Provincial Election Commissioner (PEC), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Muhammad Farid Khattak visited the material distribution places and issued instruction to District Returning Officers (DRO) and Returning Officers (ROs) for fair and transparent elections.
\nHe urged all voters and particularly women to exercise their right to vote by visiting polling stations without any fear or threat to perform their national duty.
\nThe constituencies wherein by-election is scheduled included NA-22 Mardan, NA-24 Charsadda and NA-31 Peshawar-V respectively.
\nThe total number of voters in these constituencies is over 1450,000, out of which the number of men voters is over 8,50,000 while 6,42,000 are women voters.
\nThe polling will begin at 8:00 A.M and will continue till 5:00 P.M. without any interval. However, voters present inside the polling stations will be allowed to cast their votes despite the expiry of the time.
\nA total of 16 candidates are in run from these constituencies. 4 each candidates are in run from NA-22 Mardan and NA-24 Charsadda while 8 candidates are contesting from NA-31, Peshawar-V respectively.
\nAccording to a spokesman of the Provincial Election Commission, 979 polling stations have been established in all three NA constituencies including 429 polling stations for men and 351 for women while 199 polling stations are for both men and women.
\nOut of the 979 polling stations 745 have been declared as highly sensitive and 234 as sensitive. The police have adopted abreast security measures.
\nFor evolving election strategy, a meeting among all returning officers, district administration and concerned officers was also held to conduct this phase of the by-election in a better manner.
\nSpecial training has also been imparted to all presiding officers and polling staff for compilation of election results. Media has been restricted from broadcasting any unofficial result till passage of one month after closure of the polling.
\nThe provincial election commission has made a complaint to Chief Secretary KP and IGP due to non cooperation and indifferent attitude of DPO Charsadda in connection with the conduct of fee and fair by election in Charsadda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday handed over election materials to concerned staff and has finalized arrangements for the by-election scheduled on October 16 (Sunday) on three vacant National Assembly seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The election materials were handed over to concerned staff of NA-31 at Nishter Hall Peshawar and also dispatched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[39],"class_list":{"0":"post-289532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-peshawar","8":"tag-ecp"},"yoast_head":"\n