Today, the polling process will continue uninterrupted from 8 am to 5 pm across the country Mobile Phone services suspended

Today, the voting process for the General Elections-2024 is taking place across the country, which will continue without interruption from eight in the morning until five in the evening.

Polling began for national and four provincial assemblies to elect representatives for a democratic term of five years.

At least 12.8 million registered voters exercise their right to vote to elect members on 265 National Assembly and 590 provincial assembly seats.

Approximately 18,000 candidates across the country are in the arena to woo the registered voters (128,587,760). There is green ballot paper for the National Assembly and white for the provincial assemblies.

The total number of candidates for the National Assembly is 5,254. In Punjab, 141 seats of the National Assembly and 296 seats of the provincial assembly are up for grabs. Polling is taking place on 61 National Assembly and 130 provincial seats in Sindh.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, polling is going on for 44 seats of the National Assembly and 113 seats of the Provincial Assembly, while voters will elect 16 members of the National Assembly and 51 of the Provincial Assembly in Balochistan.