Polling for the first phase of local bodies elections in seventeen districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was held on Sunday.

The polling started at 08:00 in the morning and continued till 05:00 in the evening without any break.

According to details, more than nine-thousand polling stations and nearly twenty-nine thousand polling booths were set up for the elections.

Radio Pakistan's Peshawar correspondent reports that tight security measures were taken to ensure peaceful holding of the polls.

Source: Radio Pakistan