Reforms body calls DG Nadra with record of blocked ID cards

ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms has summoned the director genera of National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) with record of all blocked identity cards and their province-wise breakup in the next meeting.
The decision was taken on the complaints of some of the members of the parliamentary committee about blocking of identity cards by Nadra.The meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms was held with Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar in the chair. PTI members also attended the meeting. Dar updated the PTI members on proceedings of previous meetings of the committee and the work undertaken by its sub-committee.
Chairman of the sub-committee, Zahid Hamid, told the meeting that it had completed consideration of Representation of People Act (RoPA) and related proposals. It has also undertaken review of five other laws – Delimitation of Constituencies Act 1974, Electoral Rolls Act 1974, Political Parties Order 2002, Allocation of Symbols Order 2002, and ECP Order 2002.
The committee was informed that on the request of the ECP, the sub-committee allowed it more time to provide concrete proposals/recommendations regarding introduction of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)/bio-metric system for identification of voters and voting by overseas Pakistanis. Hamid added the ECP was told that these proposals/recommendations were required by the sub-committee within two to three weeks to enable it to consider the same before the final report was submitted to the PCER.