Number of registered voters crosses 122 million as ECP to issue lists on Friday
ISLAMABAD, Oct 06 (APP): The number of the registered voters in the country has gone up to 122,196,122 (122.2 million) including 66.4 million of male and 55.7 million of female voters.
The said information comes at a time when the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is set to issue the voters’ lists for all national and provincial constituencies of the country on Friday.
The work of revising the electoral lists for the upcoming general elections was in the process since November 7, 2021.
According to the electoral rolls, more than half of the registered voters are from Punjab province with 70.6 million eligible voters, while Sindh has the second-highest number of voters with 25.6 million people eligible to cast vote.
Whereas, according to the ECP data the KhyberPakhtunkhwa province has 20.8 million voters while Balochistan has only 5.09 million registered voters.
The federal capital, Islamabad, has 984,477 registered voters, the ECP data revealed.
It merits mentioning that the correction, if any, inclusion or exclusion of voters from electoral rolls, or the change of address is possible before the announcement of the general elections.
The registration of new votes and correction of data in these electoral rolls would start from Friday (tomorrow).
All District Election Commissioners will be available in their respective districts during the official office hours for the convenience of the public.
Security Forces kill terrorist in Mattani
RAWALPINDI, Oct 06 (APP): A terrorist was killed on Thursday during an intelligence based operation (IBO) conducted by the security forces in general area Mattani of Peshawar.
The security forces killed the terrorist amid intense fire exchange that took place between troops and the terrorists during the conduct of the operation, an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) news release said.
The forces also recovered weapon and ammunition from the killed terrorist.
The killed terrorist remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces and killing of innocent citizens.
Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif chairing a meeting of IT Task Force
