26 June,2011 07:38 AM IST | | Agencies
The Pakistan-administered Kashmir is all set for the legislative assembly elections to be held today. Election campaigning came to an end on Friday.
Various political parties as well as independent candidates held public meetings and also went door-to-door to woo the voters. There are 421 candidates in the fray. Polling for 41 of the 49 assembly seats will be held on Sunday. Eight seats are reserved for women. According to official figures, some 12,000 armed forces personnel and 15,000 policemen have been deployed for the voting in the state that is officially called "Azad Jammu Kashmir" or referred to as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in India.
Observers said the newly-launched Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) in the region, which mainly consists of Muslim Conference dissidents, has converted the electoral fray into a three-way fight giving competition to the Muslim Conference and the Pakistan Peoples Party.
According to the final list issued by the state election commission, the total number of voters is 30,17,816. A total of 5,559 polling stations have been set up with 6,448 booths. As many as 4,351 presiding officers have been appointed to supervise the polling.u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0
