Interior Minister Gohar Ejaz has stated that all necessary arrangements have been made to ensure peaceful and transparent conduct of general elections on Thursday. Addressing a news conference along with Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murtaza Solangi in Islamabad today, he emphasized the people should come out on the polling day and exercise their right to vote without any fear or intimidation. The Interior Minister said the civil armed forces, the armed forces and police as well as administration are working round the clock to ensure conducive environment on the polling day. Gohar Ejaz said 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.

He said each polling station will have deployment of seven to eight security personnel on average. He said about six hundred and fifty thousand security personnel have been deployed on the ground to ensure the security of the voters. In his remarks, the Information Minister said despite all speculations, the general elections are taking place on Thursday. He said it is written in the preamble of the constitution that the country will be governed by its elected representatives. He said the Information Ministry has also launched an app for the facilitation of local and foreign journalists.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)