PTI demands probe after bags full of CNICs recovered from drain in Lahore
Around 1,000 CNIC - a document required for voting were reportedly found dumped in a sewer line
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday demanded an investigation into the hundreds of national identity cards that were recovered from inside a nullah in Lahore’s Shafiqabad.
Authorities on Tuesday recovered two to three bags full of computerised national identity cards (CNICs) dumped on a nullah. Police said the number of cards recovered could be more than thousand.
The PTI demanded an investigation in to the recovery of hundreds of CNICs recovered just one day before the elections.
The Shafiqabad locality falls under the National Assembly constituency NA-125 of Lahore. The CNIC is a mandatory document required for voting in Pakistan, among other things.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Yasmin Rashid and Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz’s Waheed Alam are contesting from the constituency.
Other candidates in the fray are Zubair Kardar of Pakistan Peoples’ Party, Hafiz Salman Butt of MMA and Memona Hamid of TLP.
The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) claimed the card had already been expired and ruled out their validity for vote casting on July 25.
Dunya News video footage, however, shows most of the cards with the expiry date of 2020. The recent development puts a question mark over the performance of authorities and control system.
