District Monitoring Officers in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as per the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) instructions, are issuing notices and fines to candidates for violating election rules.

According to the social media post of ECP spokesman, District Monitoring Officer Sahiwal, Paigham Ghani, has fined Rana Aamir Shahzad Tahir, a candidate of NA-141, Rs50,000 for breaching the code of conduct.

District Monitoring Officer in Mardan has imposed a fine of Rs50,000 on Jamat-e-Islami candidate Aqib Ismael of NA-23 for erecting king-size hoardings.

The Deputy Commissioner in Mardan has instructed the candidate to deposit the receipt after paying the fine into the national exchequer.