The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) on Friday submitted its report on NA-118 voter verification to the election tribunal in which the Authority said that no record was found for 50,000 votes, while 25,000 votes were unverified and 4,000 were bogus votes. However 15,000 votes were verified, the report added.
The election tribunal had directed NADRA to carry out thumbprint verification of votes in NA-118 Lahore. Malik Riaz of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz had received 103,346 votes in NA-118.
On Friday, the Lahore High Court adjourned the hearing regarding voter verification in NA-118. The election tribunal will now take a decision on the matter.
After May 11 elections, an application was filed by Hamid Zaman, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf candidate who was adjudged to have finished as runner-up to Malik Riaz. The tribunal ruled that the petitioner must pay the cost of rechecking.
�of�n � sist Russia has no reason to fear the accords, which offer closer political andnm�n � but Moscow condemns them as harmful to its interests and an intrusion into what has traditionally been its sphere of influence.
It did so again Friday immediately after the signing ceremony in Brussels, warning of “serious consequences” to follow.
“We will take all the necessary measures to protect our economy,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the ITAR-TASS state news agency.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Ukrainian society is split after being forced to choose between Europe and Russia.
Friday’s signing is a bitter pill to swallow for Putin who wanted Ukraine to join his own Eurasian Customs Union, aimed at bringing the former Soviet states back into the Russian fold.
Even if Ukraine has eluded him, Putin can, however, claim partial success.
The EU originally offered the same deals to Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus but they changed tack once Moscow warned of serious consequences.
Accords offer new future
Poroshenko said the deal would open up a whole new future for Ukraine, including Crimea which Moscow annexed in March, adding it set the country firmly on course for membership of the European Union.
Ukraine had paid a high price in recent months for its ambitions to become part of Europe, he said, but it was worth it because the country’s future as a European state, sharing European values, was at stake.
“Long Live Ukraine, Long Live Europe,” he said in closing his address at the ceremony, attended by all 28 EU leaders.
Garibashvili said Georgia shared the European values of democracy and freedom, switching into his native language so he could “share his emotion with the Georgian people.
“Significantly, he said Abkhazia and South Ossetia, breakaway regions recognised by Russia as independent since a 2008 war with Tbilisi, would also see the advantages of closer ties with the EU.
“You are sharers in this project,” he said.
Leanca pledged Moldova would make the most of its association agreement, promising that after “many ups and downs … we will do everything to modernise” the country.
The accords open up the huge EU market of 500 million consumers to its new partners and offers them aid and help in modernising their economies.
In return, they have to match EU norms on protection of human rights, civil society, good governance and an independent judicial system.
