KARACHI: Six polling officers from Sanghar and Sehwan districts of Sindh were arrested on Saturday night when they were trying to open the postal ballot papers.
The arrested officers include assistant returning officer (ARO) Qurban Ali Memon, senior clerk Abid Ali, junior clerk Mohammad Aslam, Muhammad Saleh a clerk at the local tehsil office, and two teachers Ghulam Mustafa Solangi and Abdul Aziz.
The spokesperson of interim Chief Minister (CM) Sindh Fazal-ur-Rehman said that the CM had ordered the senior superintendent of police (SSP) Jamshoro and the deputy commissioner to investigate the incident and submit the report.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has given the facility of the postal ballot paper to government and armed officials who are not posted in their home constituency and also to jail inmates and people with disabilities.