To me Ch.
Nisar Ali Khan Federal Interior Minister is one of few upright political
leaders of the country, but his reaction to Imran Khan’s call for resignation
of NADRA Chairman in the wake of decision of Election Tribunal in NA 122 and
declaring that NADRA reports were true have left a bad taste in the mouth. It
appears that he has neither read the Inquiry Commission Report nor the NA 122
decision of the Election Tribunal containing observations and strictures passed
against the conduct of NADRA Chairman otherwise he would not have made the
remarks.
The Inquiry
Commission in its report while discussing NADRA’s report about non-verification
of thumb impressions on the votes and NADRA Chairman’s opinion that those votes
were valid gave the remarks that he(NADRA Chairman) cannot declare them to be
valid as reports sought from NADRA by the Election Tribunal was only on the
verification of the thumb impression and not on the validity of the votes cast.
Coming to
the Election Tribunal while discussing the unsolicited supplementary report by
NADRA it pointed out that NADRA was required to make a record based report and
it was beyond its allotted sphere to make conjectures that the members of the
polling staff might have written wrong numbers of CNIC on the counterfoils on
the polling day. Election Tribunal is not supposed to attach any importance to
conjectural/concessional theory of statistical expectation brought on report by
Chairman NADRA through his supplementary report/explanatory note. Chairman
NADRA did not know what happened on the polling day so he should not have theorized
without any factual/legal basis that members of polling staff might have been
written wrong CNIC numbers on the counterfoils.
I hope
and expect that the honorable minister would take necessary action against
NADRA Chairman in accordance with law to clear the name of his own ministry
from the acts of his subordinate institution. It may also be mentioned here
that there were widespread news that NADRA Chairman is friend of Mr.Ayaz Sadiq’s
son when NADRA’S supplementary report was submitted and that the news was never
contradicted.
Tasneem Hameed
