Hour-long wait at polling station in Karachi’s NA-236 constituency

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Dawn.com staffer Azhar Khan faced an hour-long wait due to a reported shortage of staff at a polling station in Gulshan-i-Iqbal for Karachi’s NA-236 constituency.

At the Bright Future School polling station, police were only allowing a maximum of two people to enter every 20-25 minutes, citing a shortage of polling staff.

“This caused a few of the people to leave the queue, saying they would return once the crowd thinned out,” he says.

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