Chief Election Commissioner Justice Hamid Ali Mirza (retd) has said during an advisory meeting with the politicians that voters’ lists cannot be prepared before May.
He said that all the lists which would be prepared without fulfilling
of legal requirements would be unconstitutional adding that if any
institution would force to complete it soon, would also be responsible
of mistakes in lists.
The Commissioner on Monday told that the complete voters’ lists
cannot be prepared by February 23 as the deadline given by the Supreme
Court (SC). The commission has already sent two summaries regarding the
delay, Mirza said.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), political parties, civil
society and media held a consultative session to discuss key issues for
ensuring credible and transparent elections in the country.
A detailed presentation was given to the participants aiming to share
vital tasks to be completed before next general elections while steps
were discussed that have been taken to make the electoral process more
effective and ensure their transparency and credibility.
Meanwhile, the ECP and NADRA have redoubled their efforts to complete
the gigantic task of publishing final voter lists as early as possible.
A total of 10,000 data entry operators are working in three shifts
nowadays to complete the publication of Preliminary Electoral Rolls as
soon as possible.
National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) will hand over
computerized voter lists containing names pictures of 80.40 million
voters to ECP. As many as 30.70 million unverified votes are being
deleted and the names of youngsters having Computerised National
Identity Cards (CNIC) are being added in the new voter lists.
The final electoral rolls are likely to be published in May. SANA
