This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The UNDP trained government staff has been deployed to over 69,876 polling stations across Pakistan. Reportedly, over 700,000 government employees will assume their duties on Friday while 50,000 government officials have already reported for duty.
The staff includes a large number of school teachers who will report to their concerned Returning Officers (ROs) on Friday morning and play a vital role in completing polling day arrangements. The arrangements will only begin once all the election campaigns have come to an end on Thursday night.
According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Country Director in Pakistan Marc-Andre Franche, the organization has provided training to 33,000 police men from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab Police, over 450 ROs and 700,000 polling staff (reportedly 720,000), including the ECP officials and school teachers, for performing duties in the general elections.
In addition, international electoral observers will be facilitated to visit different polling stations on May 11. Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan Ishtiak Ahmed Khan has assured foolproof security for foreign observers during their visits at the polling stations.
“We don’t have this kind of mandate… on the facilitation of the electoral observers’ visits. We do have a role pertaining to the electoral observation and conducting briefings accordingly, for the international community including the foreign observers but we’re not arranging for their visits here,” Marc-Andre Franche clarified.
On the other hand, the Election Commission of Pakistan has confirmed that 180 million ballot papers for general elections have been printed under the supervision of the Pakistan Army. Dispatch of ballot papers to constituencies was on track and around 70 per cent of the papers had already been sent.
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