ECP to install CCTV at highly sensitive polling stations

Polls supervisor will set up 92,500 polling stations across the country for voting on Feb 8

ISLAMABAD:

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) completed the preparations for the polling scheme for the February 8,2024 general elections, declaring more than 17,500 polling stations as highly sensitive and over 32,500 as sensitive.

The polls supervisor has decided that election process at the highly sensitive polling stations across the country would be monitored through cameras. In this regard, necessary instructions had been issued to the chief secretaries, as well as the district returning officers (DROs).

The ECP would set up 92,500 polling stations across the country, which had been divided into three categories, according to ECP sources. They said that 42,500 polling stations had been categorised as normal, 32,508 as sensitive and more than 17,500 as highly sensitive.

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Among the highly sensitive polling stations, the sources said, 6,599 were located in Punjab, 4,430 in Sindh, 238 in Balochistan and 4,344 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). In these polling stations, CCTV cameras would be installed to monitor the election process, the sources added.

Among the highly sensitive polling stations, 15,829 polling stations were located in Punjab, 8,030 in Sindh, 2.068 in Balochistan, and more than 6,500 in K-P. In the federal capital, according to the sources, 990 polling stations and 3,096 polling booths would be set up.