SIALKOT, Oct 23: All eyes are set on the results of repolling on Thursday (today) in two polling stations 142 and 143 of NA-111 (Sialkot-II) constituency.

The outcome of the re-polling will decide the fate of three potential candidates — ex-MPA Chaudhry Idrees Ahmad Bajwa (PML-N), ex-MNA Chaudhry Ameer Hussain (PML-Q) and Maj Tariq Yousaf (retired) (PPP).

Talking to newsmen on Wednesday, Sialkot District Returning Officer Muhammad Zahoor Abbasi said the election commission had made all out efforts for holding free, fair and transparent re-polling in a peaceful atmosphere. He claimed that anti-social elements would be dealt with an iron hand.

The two polling stations — 142 and 143 — are located in far-off rural areas in the Sialkot tehsil.

Unknown armed men had snatched eight ballot boxes with full of cast votes from the polling staff while some others injured several people on minor election disputes in these polling stations during the polling on Oct 10.

Taking serious notice of untoward incidents, the election commission had withheld the results of NA-III and ordered re-polling in two polling stations. There are 1,700 registered voters in these polling stations.

The re-polling will start at 8.00 am which will remain continue till 5.00 pm without any break.

As of now, Saddar police have failed to trace out culprits who had snatched the ballot boxes from the polling staff at the Government Girls Primary School, Ludhar.

Police had recovered five of the eight snatched ballot boxes from the Marala Ravi Link Canal near Motra (Daska), but they have no clue to the remaining three ballot boxes.

Meanwhile, Sialkot police have arrested Tahir Mehmood Hundali, PPP’s loosing candidate in PP-125, after the cancellation of his pre-arrest bail.

Hundali and his armed accomplices had shot at and injured seriously Tariq Subhani, the younger brother of PML-Q MPA-elect Chaudhry Khush Akhtar Subhani, in a polling station of the Government Primary School, Variyo. The polling had been suspended for several hours in polling stations of Ludhar and Variyo villages due to untoward incidents.