KARACHI, Jan 9: The Karachi Coordination Committee of the Pakistan People’s Party has taken serious notice of what it called the deficiency in voters’ lists wherein 20 million eligible voters have not yet been registered.

The committee also criticised the one-sided election staff and enumerators for making the voter registration process totally biased.

The meeting was held at Bilawal House on Monday evening as some top leaders of the party had left for Dubai where Benazir Bhutto is believed to have discussed the evolving political situation in the backdrop of reports of back channel contacts with the government, the All-Parties Conference called by Mian Nawaz Sharif and the party’s response if snap elections were called by the regime.

At Bilawal House, the meeting chaired by Aftab Shaban Mirani was attended by Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Nawab Yousuf Talpur, Taj Haider, Prof N. D. Khan, Nafis Siddiqui while Kamal Azfar and Senator Farooq H. Naik joined the meeting later.

According to sources, the meeting discussed the island issue besides matters pertaining to demolition f localities allegedly on the pretext of removing encroachments by the government and law and order.

The meeting also took serious notice of plight of the families of the missing persons and demanded that the government should let the courts know their whereabouts and who had picked up them and for what reason. It expressed serious concern over the government’s persistence in not giving any information about the missing persons and protecting those who had removed them from the scene.

PPP Sindh General Secretary Nafees Siddiqui briefed the meeting about the party’s preparation for by-elections being held for NA-250, Karachi. The coordination committee members congratulated Nafees Siddiqui for bringing out a big rally from two areas falling in NA-250 constituency, which later joined the public meeting in Lyari.

Syed Qaim Ali Shah said a special session of the PPP’s Sindh Council would be summoned shortly to devise strategy for by-elections of NA-250 Karachi and PS-71 Kotri.