As polling began at 8:00am on Saturday, a total of 2.8 million residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s merged tribal districts are expected to exercise their franchise to elect their representatives for 16 general seats of the provincial assembly in the first-ever provincial assembly elections.
The Election Commission of Pakistan has set up 1,897 polling stations across the region, previously called Fata. Of them, 554 have been declared highly sensitive and 461 sensitive.
People in many districts started lining up outside polling stations early in the morning and reports from the districts suggest that the polling process started between 8.00am and 8.30am in all districts.
The ECP finalised arrangements for elections on Friday and handed over the relevant materials to the polling staff in their respective areas.
