ECP to conduct survey to ensure voters have CNICs
By Tanveer Ahmed
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will undertake a door-to-door survey by July to ensure that people enrolled in electoral lists have computerised national identity cards (CNIC), a sub committee of the National Assembly was informed on Friday.
The sub committee of the Standing Committee on Law Justice and Parliamentary Affairs met at the Parliament House and was briefed about the various steps the commission had been taking to make the next general elections free and fair.
MNA SA Iqbal Qadri chaired the meeting, which was attended by MNAs Advocate Anusha Rehman Khan, Riaz Fatyana, Election Commission of Pakistan Secretary Ishtiaq Ahmed and other officials and representatives of the Law Ministry.
MNA Anusha Rehman expressed dissatisfaction over the electoral laws and felt that it needs to be improved further to ensure that the next general elections are held in a transparent manner.
She also showed concern over the working of NADRA and pointed out that opposition parties had serious reservations over the working of the authority. Anusha identified different loopholes in the system of NADRA, especially related to helping the Election Commission to prepare electoral rolls.
“The next general elections could be rigged through technology, as the NADRA database could be used to manipulate the electoral lists,” she said and suggested that the authority should be given under the command of the ECP from the president’s control as long as it is assisting the later in preparations of the electoral rolls.
Anusha also called for the completion of the ECP, as an incomplete commission could put a serious question mark on the validity of all the reform processes it has undertaken, which according to her has also been pointed out by the Supreme Court.
MNA Riaz Fatyana also endorsed Anusha’s views and said that it was a constitutional requirement and if steps were not taken to complete the commission, anyone can challenge the whole reforms in it.
Source: Daily Times
Date:5/7/2011
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