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| July 19, 2006 | Wednesday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 22, 1427 |
Parties want CNIC condition for voters’ list waived
LARKANA, July 18: The election commission should waive the condition of computerised national identity card for registration of voters. Speaking at a meeting held here on Tuesday, local leaders of the PML-N, PPP (Patriots), Sindh National Front, Sindh Taraqi Passand Party, Tehrik-i-Insaf, PML-F, Khaksar Tehrik, Sorath Saqafati Sangat and Sindh Social Alliance said that the condition would deprive thousands of people of the opportunity to become voters.
They said that Nadra had failed to issue CNIC to the people in rural areas.
They said that unnecessary hitches and objections by Nadra in preparing cards had disappointed thousands of people as they had been trapped in tricky hindrances.
They said that old NIC should be accepted while preparing the voters’ list and special teams down to the union council level should be constituted for speeding up the process of issuing CNIC.
They demanded that the fee of issuing CNIC should be reduced from Rs75 to Rs40 because people with insufficient means could not afford it.
The meeting said that the condition of presenting CNIC by families while getting their names entered in the voters’ list was a move to converting Sindhis into a minority.
Ashique Kalhoro, Sindh councillor of the PML-N, said that an all-party conference would be convened on July 20 to put pressure on the government to withdraw the decision.
It may be mentioned that enumerators had started visiting houses from July 14 for preparation of lists and it would continue till July 28.
The education supervisors had just handed over a kit and book of instructions provided by the election commission to teachers for undertaking the assignment.
The enumerators had not been imparted any training prior to beginning with the process, the sources said.
The election commission will receive objections and applications for correction from January 22, 2007 to February 12 while final electoral rolls would be printed from March 21 to April 19.
Shahnawaz remembered: The Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarian and the PPP-SB held separate functions to mark the 21st death anniversary of Shahnawaz Bhutto in Naudero and Al-Murtaza house on Tuesday.
Quran Khwani was held at former prime minister’s house in Naudero which was followed by distributing food among participants.
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