KHYBER
\nPolling in one each Village Councils (VC) in Landi Kotal and Bara was held peacefully here on Sunday; however the security forces did not allow the local journalist of Landi Kotal press club to converge the election process.
\nIn Landi Kotal the election was conducted in VC 2 Dilkhad (Charbagh) while in Bara it was carried out in VC 22 Meri Khel(07) of district Khyber.
\nAccording to District Election Commissioner Shahid Ali, five polling stations had been established in both VCs among those three had been declared most sensitive.
\nTwo separate polling stations were also set up for the women voters, he said.
\nIncluding 3827 women voters, a total of 8804 votes had been registered in two VCs, Shahid Ali said. As per the district Election Commission schedule, the polling started at 8:00 am and continued till 5:00 pm without any break.
\nPrior to it, a full proof security arrangement was set up and police force personnel were deployed at the polling stations to avoid any untoward incident.
\nOn the polling day when a team of local media persons intended to visit the area for media converge, they were stopped by the Frontier Corp (FC) troops at Charbagh checkpoint and did not permit them.
\nAccording to the Inter Services Public Affairs statement due to the bordering area, security was the top concern therefore no alien was allowed to enter without proper identification.
\nSoon after, the polling was concluded, counting was started and according to unofficial result Independent candidate, Miss Zaliqa of VC 2, Dilkhad (Charbagh) Landi Kotal won the election by securing 656 votes.
\nNahida of Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaf(PTI)remained runner-up with 434 votes.
\nResult of the VC 22,Meri Khel 07 could not be ascertained till filing the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KHYBER Polling in one each Village Councils (VC) in Landi Kotal and Bara was held peacefully here on Sunday; however the security forces did not allow the local journalist of Landi Kotal press club to converge the election process. In Landi Kotal the election was conducted in VC 2 Dilkhad (Charbagh) while in Bara it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n