The Supreme Court on Friday directed National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to give a presentation on the software designed to ensure the right of vote to overseas Pakistanis in the apex court auditorium on April 12, at 3:30pm in the presence of parliamentarians and other stakeholders.
A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar and comprising Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan heard the constitution petitions under Article 184(3) of the Constitution regarding right of vote to the overseas Pakistanis.
The NADRA in pursuant to the court order dated 7.3.2018 had given a presentation to the bench in chambers.
"We find it expedient that such presentation be shared with representatives of the people of Pakistan which include two representatives of all 18 political parties represented in the Parliament and the provincial assemblies, six members each from the National Assembly and the Senate, to be nominated by the speaker/chairman Senate, equally from treasury and the opposition benches, secretaries of the Cabinet Division, Ministry of Information Technology, Ministry of Law and Justice, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Foreign Affairs; chief election commissioner and the members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)."
The court order said for the third-party evaluation, IT experts from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Institute of Business Administration Karachi (IBA) and all provincial information technology boards and any other expert or officer, as the ECP may deem appropriate, personnel of print and electronic media, and Bilal Hassan Minto, senior lawyer, will be present during the presentation.
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