KARACHI: Mr Justice S.A. Rahman, Chief Election Commissioner, yesterday [Aug 17] asked the people to get their names entered in the electoral lists being prepared for the next general elections in 1969.

The Chief Election Commissioner, speaking from Radio Pakistan, Karachi, said that 75 election officers had been appointed in West Pakistan to make the electoral lists up-to-date. He said these election officers would guide the people on the procedure of getting their names included or excluded from the electoral lists.

He said that the electoral lists prepared in 1964 included the names of Pakistanis who had attained the age of 21 years on May 1, 1964. Since then, many more people had attained the age of 21 years and many others had died whose names needed to be removed from the lists.

He said that four election officers had been appointed for Karachi Division who may be contacted for guidance.

To get the names entered or removed from the list, the voters would have to make an application to the respective Union Council on a prescribed form with a five-rupee court stamp on it.

[Meanwhile, as reported by a correspondent in Washington,] a top State Department official hinted yesterday [Aug 17] that President Johnson could take any military measures, including action against China, to pursue the Viet-Namese war under the Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed by the Congress in 1964.

Mr Nicholas Katzenbach, Under-Secretary of State, under intense questioning by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, observed that the Tonkin Gulf resolution had authorised the President “to use the armed forces of the United States in whatever way was necessary” in the Viet-Namese conflict.

Senator Gore of Tennessee asked: “It seems to me that you are now in a way saying that this resolution authorised a war with China.”

Published in Dawn, August 19th, 2017