Deputy Commissioner Tahir Farooq told journalists on Tuesday that 165 polling stations 83 combined and 41 each for men and women had been established for the election. Dawn/File
SIALKOT: The ruling PTI and the opposition PML-N will clash again in a by-poll for a provincial assembly seat from Sialkot (PP-38, Sialkot-IV) in what is billed to be a neck-and-neck contest on Wednesday (today).
Deputy Commissioner Tahir Farooq told journalists on Tuesday that 165 polling stations 83 combined and 41 each for men and women had been established for the election. Thirty polling stations have been declared highly sensitive and six sensitive.
Rangers have been deployed at the polling stations to ensure peaceful voting. Paramilitary troops patrolled the areas falling in the constituency a day before the election. Police said they had deputed their force as well to perform the election duties.
Polling for PP-38-Sialkot by-election underway
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Buzdar opens ‘Khidmat Aap Ki Dehleez Par’
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June 1, 2021
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar inaugurated the “Khidmat Aap Ki Dehleez Par” [Services at your doorsteps] programme and launched the Khidmat App at his office, on Monday.
Additional chief secretary (ACS), Lahore commissioner and the secretary Local Bodies Department apprised the CM of salient features of the programme. Addressing the ceremony, the chief minister said the programme would improve the service delivery mechanism, along with provision of facilities at grassroots level. It was unique governance modal to benefit people, he added.
Giving details, the chief minister said the programme would continue for three weeks initially, during which streets, bazaars and localities would be cleaned and solid waste would be removed from roads. Similarly, banners and wall-chalking would be removed; he said and added that dysfunctional streetlights would also be repaired. Special attention woul