OKARA, April 21: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has finalized the polling arrangements for referendum on April 30.

An ECP spokesman told newsmen on Sunday that District and Sessions Judge Naseem Akhtar Khan had been nominated district assistant returning officer while there would be 11 liaison officers with him in all the three tehsils.

He informed that around 1,246 polling stations would be set up in various parts of the district.

There were 1,170,342 voters in the district while around 6,669 government personnel would perform duties, he added.

Local SSP Shahid Iqbal told Dawn that security measures had been tightened on all the polling stations to avoid any untoward incident.

DEMANDED: The residents in the old walled city (Qila Deepalpur) have been facing water shortage for a week as the tehsil council tubewell in the Faisal Park is out of order.