ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik Insaf (PTI) party has announced the schedule for intra-party election in the federal capital Islamabad today.
As many as 62,973 party members will elect 500 representatives out of a total 884. Senior Vice-President PTI Hamid Khan confirmed on Saturday that the central election commission of the party had finalised all arrangements to hold the polls. He said Islamabad had been divided into 40 union councils and there would be nine general and four women seats in each union council.
“Members/voters will cast their votes through cell phones and each call would cost Rs5 to Rs10. It is just nothing as compared to expenses on casting of votes in polling stations,” he said, adding that 70 percent members have their own mobile phone and CNIC numbers which have been stored in the party’s system.
“For the 30 remaining percent members, who do not own cell phones, election camps will be established in every union council. Telephone facility will be available in the camps,” he said.
Khan said for members who have cell phones, polling hours will start at midnight and continue for 24 hours. However, for those who do not have cell phones the timing would be from 8am to 6pm. He said till the middle of December, the PTI would complete the elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and then in Punjab at the end of the year.
Referring to the delay in the election in Islamabad, he said it was due to the late procurement of the electronic voting system. The PTI leader said after the first phase, countrywide elections would be held in different phases. After the completion of the process, PTI will become the biggest democratic party in the country, he added.
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