ISLAMABAD: Nation is going to election its representatives for five years today. Polling for election 2024 will continue from 8am to 5pm without any interval. It will also be public holiday so that people could exercise their right without any hindrance.

Voters are required to bring their original Computerised National Identity Cards in order to cast vote. Expired CNIC is also acceptable. Voters are also advised to get their vote details before polling day by sending their CNIC number on 8300 through SMS. Elections will be held on 265 seats of National Assembly and five hundred and ninety seats of four provincial assemblies. Total of 5,121 candidates are in race for National Assembly seats. These include 4,807 male, 312 female and two transgender. For four provincial assemblies, 12,695 candidates are in field including 12,123 male, 570 women and two transgender. There are total of 128,585,760 registered voters in country.

Punjab has most number of 73,207,896 registered voters followed by Sindh with 26,994,769, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 21,928,119, Balochistan with 5,371,947 and Federal Capital Islamabad 1,083,029. Ninety thousand seven hundred and seventy seven polling stations have been established nationwide. Of these, forty four thousand polling stations have been declared normal, twenty nine thousand nine hundred and eighty five sensitive and sixteen thousand, seven hundred and sixty six highly sensitive.

About six hundred and fifty thousand security personnel have been deployed on ground to ensure security of voters. These include personnel of police, civil armed forces and armed forces.  Election Management System will be used for transmission and compiling election results. On other hand authorities have said no decision has been taken to suspend internet system anywhere on Election Day.

Published in The Daily National Courier, February, 08 2024

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