{"id":25010,"date":"2024-02-08T17:32:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T12:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=25010"},"modified":"2024-02-08T17:32:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T12:32:51","slug":"election-2024-latest-update-on-polling-time-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/election-2024-latest-update-on-polling-time-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2024: Latest update on polling time extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Polling hours ended in Pakistan. As earlier, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecp.gov.pk\/\">Election Commission of Pakistan<\/a> (ECP) has issued a statement that voting time will not be extended.<\/p>\n<p>Polling for the general election of National Assembly and four provincial assemblies is ended across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The polling that started at 8 am has ended at 5 pm without any break. Voting is being held on 265 seats of National Assembly and 590 seats of four provincial assemblies.<\/p>\n<p>ECP authorities in a statement said that unofficial results could be broadcast by media after 6 pm.<\/p>\n<p>They said that the ECP has so far received 55 complaints regarding the electoral process, adding that 45 of them had been addressed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While PTI asks ECP to extend polling time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PTI asked the ECP to extend the polling time. According to the details, the PTI had decided to officially submit the application to the ECP.<\/p>\n<p>PTI Chief Organiser Omar Ayub said: &#8220;We have received many complaints about the slow polling process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to express my gratitude to the masses for casting votes in large numbers despite the internet outage,&#8221; Ayub said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The electoral watchdog should extend the polling time until 6:00 pm.,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Polling hours ended in Pakistan. As earlier, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued a statement that voting time will not be extended. Polling for the general election of National Assembly and four provincial assemblies is ended across the country. The polling that started at 8 am has ended at 5 pm without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[10362,148,11103,11226,151,138,253,194],"class_list":["post-25010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-election-2024","tag-ecp","tag-election-results","tag-general-elections-2024","tag-national-assembly","tag-pakistan","tag-pmln","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}