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KARACHI, Aug 23: Deputy Election Commissioner Tanveer Zaki on Wednesday assured the Pakistan People’s Party leaders that the government would conduct house census, as well as enrolment of voters, in the areas where this had not been done yet.
He was addressing a joint meeting of the representatives of Pakistan People’s Party, Karachi Division, and the Provincial Election Commission at the office of Nafees Siddiqui, General Secretary of the PPP, Sindh, to discus the complaints and irregularities in the preparation of new voter lists.
On the occasion, district presidents of PPP complained that names of opposition supporters were not being enrolled as the election commission staff concerned was working under the supervision of the activists of ruling parties. They said that despite passage of scheduled time, a large number of houses in various areas could not be covered in the house census.
They said that there were many mistakes in the forms as the EC staff filling up the prescribed forms appeared not properly trained and not able to help illiterate people fill them up. They said that it was also observed that the staff was not giving any receipt pertaining to the entries in the lists.
The meeting was told that staff could not reach each and every house in their assigned areas as they were supposed to visit more than 400 houses in urban areas and over 1,000 in the rural areas.
It was decided to hold another meeting after 15 days to review the situation.
Nafees Siddiqui, Rashid Rabbani, Waqar Mehdi, Rafiq Engineer, Saeed Ghani, and other PPP leaders were present at the meeting where those from the election commission were District Election Commissioners M. A. Saleem (Central), Imran Ahmed (South), S Nasir Abbas (West), Shaikh Mohammad Yaqoob (Malir) and Syed Nadeem Haider (Central).
PROCESS UNDER WAY: Enumeration staff is set to deliver and collect form-II from households from August 29 under the supervision of registration officers/assistants registration officers as per the directives of Chief Election Commissioner.
The process of collection and distribution of form-II will be completed by September 11.
According to information received here, enumeration staff in most of areas have completed distribution and collection of the form.
Provincial Election Commissioner, Sindh, in a press release issued here on Wednesday, said that it had come to know through press reports and complaints by some political parties that in some areas the staff had not succeeded in covering all households as yet. As such, necessary remedial measures may be adopted.
Such complaints may be sent directly to Provincial Election Commissioner, Sindh, at Block No 44-A, Pakistan Secretariat, Shahrah-i-Iraq, Karachi. For such intimation or any other assistance, Deputy Election Commissioner, Karachi Division, Tanveer Zaki, may be contacted at 021-9203322 during office hours.
It requested people to cooperate with the enumeration staff and return the forms delivered at their residences as soon as possible after filling up particulars of all eligible voters, aged 18 and above who are in possession of computerised or old NIC.
It clarified that this data would be used for preparing fresh computerised electoral rolls and as soon as these rolls were published, the previous ones would no more have legal effect.—PPI
