Roundup 12pm-1pm

Published July 25, 2018
  • Voters in Pervaiz Khattak's constituency allegedly carried ballot papers out of a polling station, in clear violation of ECP rules and election laws.
  • Polling has resumed at Quetta's Tameer-e-Nau Model School polling station earlier hit by a deadly suicide blast. The blast targeted a police van which was passing by on a road near the polling station in NA-260.
  • Any polling station where women's votes are polled less than 10pc of the overall votes cast will have its results cancelled, the Election Commission of Pakistan has notified.
  • Our correspondents from parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa tell us women are being discouraged from voting in some parts of the province.
  • Express News is reporting that the ECP has taken notice of Imran Khan's vote in NA-53, as the PTI Chairman's voting exercise was captured on video, violating the ECP's "secrecy of ballot" code.
  • Polling has been suspended in station number 225 in NA-136, Lahore after PTI levelled allegations that female voters are being harassed.
  • BBC Urdu reports that transgender candidate Nayab Ali, standing for election from NA-142, has cast her vote.

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