NA body directs ECP to ensure validity degrees of candidate
By Asim Hussain

ISLAMABAD—Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs recommended that the Election Commission of Pakistan should ensure the validity of the degree of candidates, contesting for the Election of member of National Assembly and determine the equivalence of the certificate issue by the religious Madrassas with the Graduation Degrees.
This was decided in the in the meeting of Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs which held here on Thursday. MNA Riaz Fatyana, chaired the meeting.
The committee directed the secretary election commission that the name’s of the dead persons should be deleted from the voter’s lists. The Committee recommended that at the time of casting vote; the voter’s is supposed to produce to National Identity Card to presiding Officers for identification.
The committee recommended that the Election Commission should ensure to deflate rigging during the up coming General Election 2007. The Committee recommended that after the conclusion of polling, the Presiding Officer should ensure the result of the Election, mentioning the canceled votes on the voter forms under his signature and stamp and should hand over to the polling agents with duly receipt.
Now the Standing Committee recommended that Assistant returning officers along with law enforcement agency personals may collect result and other relevant material from the presiding officers at the polling stations in front of polling agents so that no body could be able to manipulate results.
The committee recommended that the Government should provide generators at the polling stations as alternative arrangements in case of failure of electricity.
Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Dr. Sher Afgan Niazi, Bushra Rehman, MNA, Hamid Nasir Chattha, MNA, Nunir Kihan Orakzai, MNA, Pir Muhammad Aslam Bodla, MNA, Nawab Nirza Advocate, MNA, Nafisa Munawar Raja, MNA and Imtiaz Safdar Warraich, MNA also attended the meeting.