A voter presses her thumb on an ink pad at a polling station set up in Rawalpindi for the AJK election on Sunday. APP
RAWALPINDI: Polling for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) elections concluded in the twin cities on Sunday, with verbal clashes between PML-N and PTI workers reported in some polling stations.
In the AJK Legislative Assembly, three Valley and Jammu constituencies fall in the twin cities and Rawalpindi Division and six in different districts of the province, including Lahore.
Despite the hot weather, polling started on time and ended at 5pm. Voters remained active in PML-N, PPP and PTI camps in different areas especially in the city and cantonment areas. Strict security measures had been adopted for smooth polling in the garrison city.
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Plague of rats unleashed on Rawalpindi
Several women, children hospitalised after bitten by rodents
Parliamentarians are worried by presence of vermin at posh lodges.
RAWALPINDI:
The increasing number of rats in Rawalpindi has become a pestering affair for the common man and businessmen alike. In the last six months, several women and children had to visit hospitals to get vaccination after they were bitten by the rodents
Traders from different areas of the city said that as their shops remained closed during the coronavirus lockdown, mice had a field day, destroying edible and non-edible items worth millions of rupees.
The residents of densely populated areas such as Bani, Waris Khan, Dhok Khabba, Arya Mohalla, Madanpura, Shaheenpura, Raja Bazaar, Bara Market, Ganjmandi, Namak Mandi, Urdu Bazaar, Bhabra Bazaar, Bohar Bazaar and Moti Bazaar maintained that the well-fed rats were so big that even cats were scared of them.
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