ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on Wednesday submitted its voters’ thumb verification report with the Supreme Court in the NA-125 election rigging case.
Nadra said in the report that 149,139 votes that were cast in NA-125 during the 2013 general election could **t be verified through the AFIS because of insufficient quality of fingerprints for the purpose of automated fingerprint comparison. The report declared only 57,098 votes as valid and verified.
The report further revealed that a total of 214,134 votes were cast in the NA-125 during the previous general election. Some 57,098 of them were valid whereas 149,139 could **t be verified. As many as 7,892 votes could **t be verified due to certain reasons whereas the National Identification Card (NIC) numbers mentioned on 3,998 votes were incorrect and the NIC numbers mentioned on 1,917 votes were **t valid.
It also stated that 184 votes that were cast in NA-125 were cast by locals of other constituencies whereas 398 votes had NIC numbers upon which votes were cast more than once.
It may be mentioned that Federal Minister for Railways and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Saad Rafique defeated the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Hamid Khan in NA-125 during the 2013 general election.
08-04-2016, 04:25 AM
149,139 votes could **t be verified in Saad Rafique?s constituency, Nadra tells SC
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