PESHAWAR, June 26: The printing of new computerised voter lists of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) is expected to be completed by mid of next month, according to official sources.

The acting Chief Election Commissioner, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, had made announcement about the timely printing of the new computerised voter lists of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata during a meeting here on June 16 last.

Over 10 million voters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata will exercise their right of franchise in the upcoming general elections for which the Election Commission has made arrangements to ensure smooth conduct of polling in a fair and transparent manner. The electoral rolls, after putting it on display across the province and Fata in the months of February and March 2012, were in the process of printing, sources said.

The new voter lists would curtail the chances of double registration by the voters in different constituencies, they added.

Maximum care has been taken to remove the illegal voters from the electoral lists, especially the Afghans, who have somehow managed to obtain computerised national identity cards from Nadra. Sources said that the names of Afghans were removed from the voter lists during Election Commission's door-to-door campaign for updating the lists.

Sources said that the process of registration of voters usually stopped with the announcement of schedule for the general elections. Any eligible voter possessing CNIC could be included in the voter lists by the respective registration officers at the districts after filling a simple form.

The voter screens have been dispatched to all district election offices and agency headquarters for installation at the election booths on the day of polling.

All the district election offices have sufficient numbers of ballot boxes. The Election Commission with the collaboration of UNDP has arranged scores of training workshops and seminars to educate voters in the province and tribal regions. —APP