LARKANA:District Election Commissioner Larkana, Ameen Bashir Ali Qureshi, has said that the vote is a national trust through which the destiny of nations is decided. The Election Commission has launched a nationwide campaign to register the votes of young people aged 18 and above, particularly women. All institutions should extend their cooperation to the Election Commission to make the campaign successful.
He expressed these views while chairing a meeting held on Tuesday at the District Election Commissioner’s Office in Larkana.
He said that reducing the gender gap and registering the maximum number of voters, particularly women, was the foremost priority of the Election Commission, so that women could exercise their right to vote in elections.
He stated that approximately 70,000 to 80,000 women aged above 18 years in Larkana district were not registered as voters. To eliminate this gender gap, all relevant institutions, including NADRA, were extending their full cooperation to the Election Commission’s campaign.
He said that possession of a Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) was mandatory for women to register as voters. He urged NADRA to provide data of eligible women so that their votes could be registered.
On the occasion, Assistant District Election Commissioner Saddam Hussain Jatoi briefed the participants on the ongoing Election Commission campaign for voter registration.Officials from NADRA, the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), SRSO, the Social Welfare Department, and other relevant institutions attended the meeting.