ISLAMABAD: A rumour has been circulating in the city that former senator Zafar Ali Shah, who belongs to PML-N, voted using a photocopy of his CNIC.

Mr Shah is contesting the chairman seat from union council 30. When he went to the polling station to vote, an assistant presiding officer (APO) jokingly asking if his CNIC was original. Mr Shah responded that his CNIC was original, and that if the APO thinks the CNIC was fake or a photocopy, he should give it in writing.

Talking to Dawn, Mr Shah said that when he was leaving the polling station, a PTI worker chased him and asked him to show his CNIC.

“I got angry because the PTI worker had no authority to ask about my CNIC. The APO just joked with me, and there was nothing serious about it,” he said.

However, PTI Information Secretary Naeemul Haq in a statement said the presiding officer allowed Mr Shah to vote without holding a CNIC, which was a violation of ECP regulations. He demanded that action be taken against the presiding officer.

Published in Dawn, December 1st, 2015

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