KARACHI: The process of vote recount for the port city’s NA-231 (Malir-III) constituency saw violence unfold as masked men burned a sack of ballot papers and stole another at the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) regional office in Saddar.
Workers of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) placed the blame for the incident on each other after the situation took a violent turn.
The incident, therefore, triggered commotion at the electoral body’s regional office.
The ECP has ordered the recount of four polling stations of the National Assembly constituency at the regional election commission office.
This is a developing story and is being updated with more details.
