- Ballot papers were being taken to PP-52, according to police
UMARKOT: Five suspects on Tuesday were arrested by police in an alleged fraud case and a stack of fake ballot papers was seized.
The fake ballot papers were being taken to PP-52, according to police.
It was later revealed that the fake ballot papers were going to be used as a teaching exercise for locals on how to cast votes.
The arrested suspects were identified as Anwar Soomro, Hakim, Iqbal, Kanghar and Nawab.
Earlier on Monday, The Sindh Police arrested a presiding officer from the PS-93 constituency in Karachi for electoral malpractice, ahead of the general polls.
It was reported by police, that the presiding officer, identified as Waheedullah was assigned for election duty at the PS-93 constituency but he sent another person to substitute him for election duty.
“The presiding officer was arrested on the orders of the Returning Officer,” police said, adding that the other suspect, Zubair fled from the scene.
Earlier on Saturday, six polling officers were arrested in the Sanghar and Sehwan districts of Sindh after they were caught trying to open postal ballot papers.
The arrested officers included Assistant Returning Officer (ARO) Qurban Ali Memon, a clerk at the local tehsil office Muhammad Saleh, Senior Clerk Abid Ali, junior clerk Mohammad Aslam, and two teachers Ghulam Mustafa Solangi and Abdul Aziz.
It had been reported by the Election Commission of Pakistan that “as many as 1.6 million electoral staff are assigned duties on the election day”.
Moreover, 449, 465 policemen will be deployed on July 25, out of which 202,100 will be posted in Punjab and Islamabad while 100,500 policemen will be stationed in Sindh.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 87,269 policemen will be on duty. As many as 300,071 army personnel will be deployed nationwide.
