KARACHI: Caretaker Sindh Chief Minister Justice (retd) Maqbool Baqar said Sindh government and Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) satisfied security, other arrangements made for upcoming general elections 2024.
He said general election is scheduled to take place on February 8, 2024, aimed at electing 61 members for the national and 130 members for the provincial assemblies for which a security force comprising 133,000 policemen, Rangers and Pak Army will be deployed to guarantee the election's transparency, fairness, and freedom.
“The caretaker government of Sindh is taking all-out efforts to ensure, free, fair, and transport election in Sindh.”
This he said while addressing a press conference just after presiding over a meeting to review the arrangements of the forthcoming general election here at CM House.
The CM said that the general election was being held on 61 national and 130 provincial assembly seats in Sindh. He added that out there would be 19,006 polling stations of them 6531 were sensitive and 6496 highly sensitive.
“I had a detailed meeting with the Chief Secretary, IG Police and DG Rangers in which all divisional commissioners and DIGs and provincial election commissioner, Sindh participated,” he said and added that the overall law and order situation, provision of missing facilities and arrangement of security staff, if necessary were discussed in threadbare.
After the security audit the police have worked out a requirement of 109,000 police force against which 105,000 were available and there was a shortfall of 4000 policemen, the CM said and added that the shortfall would be met by the auxiliary force of the provincial government such as anti-encroachment force, Excise police, anti-corruption Civil Defence, frontier constabulary. Apart from the police, 10,000 Rangers and 14,000 Pak Army personnel would also perform election duty, he said.
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CM said that the Election Commission of Pakistan has trained policemen as master trainers and they [Master Trainers] would further train the remaining officials and auxiliary force. He added that an Election Cell has been established in CPO which was working round the clock.
