NA-122 rigging case hearing begins today

LAHORE: Election Tribunal Judge Kazim Ali Malik Tuesday again adjourned hearing of an election petition regarding alleged rigging in NA-122 by July 8 (today) for further arguments. The counsel of Ayaz Sadiq, Barrister Ayaz Sadiq, is likely to complete his arguments on next hearing after which the tribunal will announce the judgment.
Previously, on May 30, Nadra had submitted a supplementary forensic report of the constituency stating 5898 (96.7 per cent) voters out 6123 could be declared or considered valid voters which were earlier declared invalid voters by Nadra on the pretext that CNICs of those voters were never issued by the Nadra. After this report, in the view of Nadra only 204 votes could be declared invalid in NA-122.
The report stated that Nadra examined sample of counterfoils having invalid identity card numbers and observed that a large number of these were minor mistakes in writing down the number of CNICs and theses trivial mistakes had rendered an otherwise valid CNIC number into an invalid one.
On May 9, Nadra had submitted its full audit report of NA-122 before the tribunal revealing that only 73,478 out of total 184,151 cast votes in constituency NA-122 had been verified which made that 60 per cent of the polled votes were not recognisable.