*RAWALPINDI – The army will assist the Election Commission in the pollingexercise, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor tweeted on Wednesday.*
According to him, the army reviewed the geo-strategic environment at theCorps Commanders Conference at GHQ. “Mandated assistance to ECP will beprovided for free, fair & transparent conduct of GE-18,” he tweeted.
“This national duty [will] be performed with utmost responsibility andwithout losing any focus on defence and internal security challenges inhand,” COAS Gen Qamar Bajwa was quoted as saying.
The Election Commission had requested the army to deploy its personnel inand outside the polling stations to avoid any untoward situation during theelection.