LAHORE (Dunya News) – Polling for 2013 general election has started across the country where masses will cast their vote to elect their representatives for the next five-year term.
Long queue of people were seen outside the polling station well before the start of polling. Tight security arrangements have been made across the country to ensure peaceful, free and transparent elections.
There are 86.2 million registered voters (37.6 million women and 48.6 million men) in the country while 4,670 candidates are running for general seats of National Assembly and nearly 11,000 candidates running for four provincial assemblies.
Tight security arrangements have been made More than 600,000 security personnel have deployed nationwide and around half the estimated 70,000 polling stations have been declared at risk of attack, many of them in insurgency-torn parts of Baluchistan and the northwest.
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