Karachi: Polling for Karachi’s PS-106 and PS-117 constituencies will be held today, as the provincial assembly seats vacated by PSP leaders Dr Sagheer Ahmed and Iftikhar Alam are up for grabs.
PS-106 was vacated when former MQM MPA Iftikhar Alam had left the party and joined Pak Sarzameen Party, resigning from the seat. PS-117 had been left vacant after Dr Sagheer Ahmed had resigned from the seat and left MQM for PSP as well.
In PS-106, MQM is contesting the election with their candidate Mahfooz Yar Khan while PTI’s candidate is Nusrat Anwar and PPP has fielded Abdul Samad Gabol.
In PS-117, MQM has chosen Qamar Abbas Rizvi as their candidate while PTI is contesting the by-election with Rafaqat Umar whereas the PPP will be contesting with Jawad Maqbool as their candidate.
For PS-117, the total registered voters for the constituency have been placed at 164,900 with 84 polling stations.
For PS-106, the total registered voters for the constituency are 176,395.
Another by-election is also taking place in PS-22 Naushahro Feroze District 4, where a total number of registered voters have been counted as 135,587 among them 60,709 are female voters. The total number of polling stations in PS-22 constituency are 98, where police and Rangers personnel have been deployed.
Pakistan Army soldiers have also been alerted to deal with any untoward incident.
