KARACHI: By-polls for National Assembly seat NA-247, Sindh Assembly seat PS-111 and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly seat PK-71 are being held on today.
The polling started at 8am and will continue until 5pm. Polling material was transported to the polling stations under the supervision of Pakistan Army personal a day earlier.
According to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), there are 546,451 registered voters in NA-247 and 178,965 registered voters in PS-111.
Twelve candidates are in the run for the NA-247 seat while 11 are contesting for the Sindh Assembly seat.
NA-247 was vacated by President Dr Arif Alvi while PS-111 was vacated by Governor of Sindh Imran Ismail.
Prominent candidates in the run for NA-247 seat include PTI’s Aftab Hussain Siddiqui, Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Qaiser Nizamani, Sadiq Iftikhar of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Pak Sarzameen Party’s (PSP) Arshad Vohra. Seven independent candidates are also contesting the by-polls for the constituency: Syed Adil Askari, Syed Mujahid Rasool, Shaikh Samir Mir, Tahir Ashraf Hashmi, Abdul Jalil Khan, Muhammad Ayaz, and Muhammad Sharif Awan. Ali Nawab of Pakistan Sunni Tehreek is also in the run.
PTI’s Shehzad Qureshi, MQM-P’s Jehanzeb Mughal, PML-N’s Mohammad Zahid Hussain and activist Muhammad Jibran Nasir are among those contesting on PS-111.
President Arif Alvi cast his vote at the Defence Authority Model High School earlier today. Speaking to media on the occasion, he requested the public to come out and vote. Responding to a question, he said everyone knew why the inflation had risen in the past 15 days.
Governor Imran Ismail also cast his vote at DHA Girls' College Phase 8.
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