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Raise awareness about women's participation in politics
Published: July 25, 2009- Digg
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population in Pakistan but they were not interested in casting their votes due to lack of awareness. She said that
it was the duty of government to take measures to encourage them to cast their right of vote.
She stressed that all the political parties should give 33 per cent representation to women in their parties.
She said that registration of those parties should be cancelled who discourage females to caste their vote in
elections.
Qamar-uz-Zaman said that Pakistan Election Commission had completed computerise record of all voters in
Pakistan. He said that it was not their duty to make laws and they are bound to follow only rules. He said that if
people were facing difficulties in registration then it was duty of parliamentarians to change those laws. He said
that PEC had provided door-to-door service for registration but unfortunately most of the people were not
interested in attaining this service.
He also informed that immoveable property or permanent residence was required for the registration.
Muhammad Nawaz said that 543 centres of Nadra were working to make easy accessibility of CNIC. Friday
was allocated specially for women’s registration whereas they could also applied for new CNIC during the whole
week, he added. He said that female staff was also deployed to facilitate women.
He said that any body could get his new CNIC without any cost as all kinds of fees had been waived off.







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