Govt violated rights of overseas Pakistanis by rolling back voting rights: Moonis Elahi

Govt violated rights of overseas Pakistanis by rolling back voting rights: Moonis Elahi

Pakistan

Govt violated rights of overseas Pakistanis by rolling back voting rights

LAHORE (Dunya News) – Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) central leader and former federal minister Chaudhry Monis Elahi said on Thursday that by rolling back the amendments made by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the Election Act Amendment Bill 2017 the government has violated the rights of the overseas Pakistanis.

The former federal minister wrote on social networking site Twitter that now only overseas Pakistanis in the country will be allowed to vote and the government has abolished the e-mail voting facility, while the work on Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) has been stopped.

He said Sharif mafia has expelled millions of Pakistanis who send billions of dollars from the electoral process.




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