Staff Reporter
The Punjab Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday traced 500 ghost votes of Kashmiris in Lahore.
According to a private TV channel, quoting its sources, the ECP inspected votes of Kashmiris living in hte provincial and found 500 ghost votes and rejected these votes from the voters list of Kashmiris in the City. Most of the ghost voters were from Misri Shah, Shadbagh and Shahdara.
The sources said that the ECP did not find any trace or address of these 500 votes and has also conveyed the information about these ghost votes to the Election Commission of Azad Kashmir.
The ECP has also launched a further probe in the matter as these voters are not eligible to cast their votes.
After the scrutiny, now there are 10,500 voters of Azad Kashmir in Lahore, Jammu voters are 5,700 and Kashmir Valley voters are 4,800.
The ECP sources claimed the ECP Punjab has also computerized the manual record of the Kashmiri voters in Lahore.
It is pertinent to note that the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has suggested postponing the upcoming Azad Jammu And Kashmir (AJK) election by two months.
The NCOC has also written a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner of AJK, stating that due to the rise in the number of coronavirus cases in the country, the polls should be delayed.
However, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider on Tuesday said that just like by-polls took in Pakistan despite the pandemic, elections in Azad Kashmir should also be conducted and cannot be postponed.
