July 25, 2007	Wednesday	Rajab 09, 1428

MANSEHRA, July 24: Eight Revising Authorities (civil judges) started work to dispose of 36,700 objections submitted by people whose names were either missing from the voters’ list or carried errors in the data, Dawn learnt on Monday.

Official sources told this correspondent that the process of disposing of the claims was started in the three tehsils of Mansehra district, including Mansehra, Oghi and Balakot and the tribal area of Kala Dhaka, which would continue till July 28.

During the voters’ registration process in the district and tribal area of Kala Dhaka, over 100,000 voters were missing from the lists as compared to 643,043 voters of 2002 lists.

Sources said that during the corrections of the missing data and names in recently compiled voters’ lists, the Mansehra election commission received 36,700 objections regarding the missing data in the 436 display centres in Mansehra district and 69 in Kala Dhaka.

Most of the applications were received from Kala Dhaka as elders of the area had expressed reservations about the missing of votes and threatened to launch agitation against it.

According to sources, 12,700 applications regarding the missing voters, data errors and deletions were received in Kala Dhaka, 12,500 in Mansehra tehsil, 7,000 in Balakot tehsil and 4,500 in Oghi tehsil.

Political and religious parties termed the registration process a conspiracy against opposition parties, saying that 63,000 votes were missing from the new lists as compared with the 2002 voters’ lists.