Voting rights for Expats: Election Commission of Pakistan
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 7:10:56 by Fayyaz Yaseen
Voting rights for Expats: Election Commission of Pakistan
Islamabad: (Tuesday, February 14, 2012) The Election Commission of Pakistan decided today to give voting rights to over 3.7 million overseas Pakistanis in the general elections.
The decision was taken today in a high level meeting chaired by the Secretary Election Commission Ishtiak Khan.
Admitting the right of Pakistanis living abroad to cast votes to their favourite candidates, the Election Commission decided to get their names registered in the voting lists.
During the meeting, the mechanism through which overseas Pakistanis would be able to cast votes was also discussed which included postal balloting, setting up polling booths at Pakistani Embassies and other similar options.
The meeting also mulled over reserving seats for overseas Pakistanis in the national and provincial legislature.
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Posted by Fayyaz Yaseen
on Feb 14 2012. Filed under National, Pakistan, World.
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