PESHAWAR: Chief Secretary Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry has said holding free, fair and transparent polls are top priority of the provincial government.
Presiding over a meeting regarding elections in Peshawar, he expressed satisfaction over arrangements made for general elections in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry said elaborate security measures would be ensured while CCTV cameras would also be installed at all polling stations across KP.
Earlier, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) assured the meeting of smooth operations for the upcoming general elections 2024, saying that all its operational and IT systems were working “satisfactorily”.
In a statement, the ECP said that it wasn’t facing any difficulty in the upcoming general election.
The ECP further said that it has developed an automated and modern Election Management System (EMS) that would be used to “transform and compile election results from Presiding to Returning officers”.
It added that the system had been tested several times for the mentioned purpose. ‘Besides, some additional functions and features had been included to the EMS to facilitate the Returning Officers (ROs) so that the data can be used in future even during the initial phases of the polling process,” it noted.
