In the Sanghar and Sehwan districts of Sindh, six polling officers were apprehended on Saturday night for opening postal ballot papers.

Assistant Returning officer (ARO) Qurban Ali Memon along with Muhammad Saleh a clerk at the local tehsil office, senior clerk Abid Ali, junior clerk Mohammad Aslam, and two teachers Ghulam Mustafa Solangi and Abdul Aziz were arrested by the police.

Spokesman of Sindh caretaker chief minister (CM) Fazal-ur-Rehman has directed the senior superintendent police (SSP) Jamshoro and the deputy commissioner to investigate and submit the incident report as soon as possible.

Members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the government employees along with officials of the armed forces who are not posted in their home constituencies, jail inmates and people with disabilities have been granted the postal ballot facility by the ECP.