ISLAMABAD, May 18: All the young Pakistanis who have attained the age of 18 and their names have not been included in the voters list have been given a last chance by the Election Commission to get them enrolled by June 1, 2002.

The Election Commission which met here on Saturday fixed June 1, 2002 as the last date of entertaining claims, objections and applications on electoral rolls by all the young voters who turned 18 on January 2001.

Millions of young Pakistanis have recently got the right of franchise following an insertion in the electoral rolls bringing the voting age down from 21 years to 18.

In the recently held referendum all the voters between the age of 18 and 21 were allowed to cast their votes but in the general elections scheduled to be held in October they would not be able to exercise their right of franchise without being enrolled in the electoral lists.

The Elections Commission had already expressed its inability to carry out house-to-house verification of the electoral rolls on the pretext of lack of time.

The draft electoral rolls containing names of voters, who were of 18 years or above but less than 21 years on June 1, 2002, was published on Saturday.

The meeting which was presided over by the Chief Election Commissioner Justice (R) Irshad Hasan Khan and attended by four provincial members of the commission, Justice Mohammad Ashraf Leghari, Judge High Court Sindh, Justice Nasim Sikandar, Judge Lahore High Court, Justice Ahmed Khan Lashari, Judge of the High Court of Balochistan and Justice Qazi Ehsanullah Qureshi Peshawar High Court judge also finalized the manual for the revising authorities.