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NA-249 Karachi By-polls : Polling Time Ends, Counting Starts

Karachi: Polling time ended for by-polls in NA-249 Karachi while counting also started in the meantime.

The polling remained peaceful during the polling all across the constituency.

Tough fight expected among Pakistan Muslim Leage-Nawaz candidate Muftah Ismail, Pakistan Sarzameen Party (PSP) Chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal and the PTI candidate Amjad Afridi.

The polling started at 8 am morning and continued uninterruptedly till 5 pm evening. The Sindh government had announced public holiday in NA-249 Karachi for by-polls today to felicitates voters to cast their votes in the by-polls.

Sensitive Polling Elections

Election commissioner Karachi Syed Nadeem Hyder had declared 92 polling stations as sensitive while 184 as extremely sensitive.

Number Of Polling Stations

The constituency has as many as 276 polling stations out of which 139 are joint polling stations. He apprised further that there are 76 polling stations for men and 61 for women. While numbers of polling booth are 796 out of which 458 for men and 338 for women.

Rangers and Police Deployment

Rangers and police patrolling is continued in the constituency. More than 2800 and 1100 rangers personnel have been deployed in the constituency. He informed that cctv cameras have been installed in the highly sensitive polling stations as well.

Corornavirus SOPs

Regarding coronavirus SOPs he informed that masks and sanitizers are being provided to presiding officers including all officers.

It is pertinent to mention here that NA-249 vacated after PTI leader Faisal Vawda resignation while by-election in the constituency will be held tomorrow.