LAHORE: Polling for the NA-120 by-election commenced at 8am across 220 polling stations in the Punjab capital, with the majority seeing the by-election in ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s former constituency as a major test for the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
The by-election is being contested by Begum Kulsoom Nawaz of PML-N, Dr Yasmin Rashid of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Faisal Mir of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), and Advocate Ziauddin Ansari of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), among others.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has printed 350,000 ballot papers for the constituency’s 321,786 registered voters.
All polling stations in the constituency have been declared sensitive, with police, rangers and army personnel providing security. The polling will conclude at 5pm.
