NADRA warns PTI, threatens to take action in court

ISLAMABAD:

National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) on Sunday dismissed the impression that it operates under the government’s pressure.

“There is no iota of pressure from government side; in fact PTI leadership has been pressurizing NADRA and its chairman by launching a malicious campaign against them,” the spokesman of NADRA said.

PTI leadership held meetings with NADRA employees, persuading them to stage sit-ins and shut down registration centres, he stated.

“Pictures of Shah Mahmood Qureshi and other leaders with NADRA protestors are available on record,” the spokesman said.

NADRA is a statutory body and the reports of more than 39 constituencies so for submitted to respective tribunals neither implicate anyone nor exonerate any party, he added.

He said, “The supplementary is submitted to election tribunal on the requests made by the counsels of both the parties.”

“However, during the proceedings when PTI counsel denied to have made any request to NADRA for production of supplementary report, chairman NADRA produced a request letter from the PTI counsel before the honorable judge,” the spokesman added.

He warned that legal action may be initiated any time against the PTI lawyers for “lying in court”.