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All set for bye-election in PS-94
KARACHI: All is set for the bye-election in Sindh Assembly's constituency PS-94 (Orangi Town, Karachi) on Oct 17, the Deputy Chief Election Commissioner (CEC),Sindh, Mohammed Najeeb said.The seat of provincial assembly fell vacant after the murder of MQM MPA Raza Haider. The late MPA was gunned down on August 2 last, along with his police guard, in the Jamia Masjid in Nazimabad.
Where he had gone to attend the funeral of the mother of a friend.
The Deputy CEC said that the total of five candidates are contesting the by-election and they are: Riaz Gul of ANP, Saifuddin Khalid (MQM), and three independent candidates Zeenat Yasmeen, Abdul Haq and Masood Alam.
The polling will be conducted without any break from 8 am to 5 pm, he said and added that 86 polling stations have been established which will accommodate 287 polling booths.
He said that District Returning Officer Tanvir Zaki and Returning Officer Nadeem Haider will supervise the polling.
The area has always been considered as an MQM stronghold. While a majority voters of the constituency comprising Urdu-speaking people, a good number of people living in PS-94 are not conventionally considered as MQM’s voters.
The PS-94, which starts from Orangi Town Sector 5 and stretches to Sector 11 and Sector 11-E, houses the blends of community. In Sector 5, Urdu Chowk is almost 100 per cent Urdu-speaking neighbourhood, but people of different ethnicities are also living in parallel localities of Mominabad and Faqeer Colony. Along with Pashto-speaking people, a large number of people from southern Punjab have been settled in the low-income neighbourhood for the last several years.
Parts of Sector 11 and Sector 11-E mainly comprise Urdu-speaking people, including a large number of those who had migrated to Pakistan in 1971 after the East Pakistan debacle.
Courtesy www.geo.tv