Islamabad, Oct 20 (UNI) Overseas Pakistanis will not be able to vote in the second round of by-elections scheduled for Sunday as they were never registered by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), an ECP official on Saturday said.
By-elections for National Assembly constituency NA-247 in Karachi and the provincial assembly seats PS-111 Karachi and PK-71 Peshawar are to take place on Sunday, Dawn reported.
Overseas Pakistanis had been entitled to vote for 35 constituencies in the by-elections held on Oct 14. The decision in this regard was taken on the directives of the Supreme Court by the ECP and trialed for the first time. Out of the 7,364 overseas Pakistani who registered for the programme, 6,233 had polled their votes through an i-voting software.