Lahore, May 13 (ANI): The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has rated the May 11 elections in the country as the "most poorly managed affair", and has recommended a serious initiative to revamp the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), redefine its priorities and reduce bureaucrats' meddling in political affairs.
The recommendations have been made in the HRCP's preliminary report on Elections 2013 based on its monitoring of the electoral process before and on the polling day, reports The Dawn.
The commission's observers visited 57 National Assembly constituencies - eight in Balochistan, 13 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 19 in Punjab and 17 in Sindh. A detailed report on its election observation project is under preparation.
It observed that the 2013 elections were the costliest in the country's history and the expenses incurred by parties and candidates on publicity through electronic and print media crossed the limits of decency.
The report deplored that fresh delimitation of constituencies was not carried out for the 2013 elections and urged the government to give priority to national census and delimit the constituencies before the next elections.
It criticised the failure of the authorities to enrol members of the Ahmadiya community on the common voters' list and called for their inclusion in the list. The HRCP noted that there were a number of complaints of voters facing coercion, particularly in several
constituencies in Karachi.
The report suggested expeditious adoption of legislative and policy measures to ensure that women were not stopped from voting. (ANI)
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