Validation: 60,000 PTI members from K-P remain unverified

Party has verified 2,425,686 people across Pakistan

PESHAWAR: At least 60,000 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf members from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and 25,000 others from Federally Administered Tribal Areas remain unverified during a membership campaign held in February.

This has mentioned in recent data released by the party’s election commission.

The membership process kicked off on February 15. So far, 2,705,892 people have been registered with PTI’s election commission through mobile phone services across the country.

As per the data available with The Express Tribune, the membership of 2,425,686 people has been verified by the party. However, the membership of 285 725 people across the country remains unverified. Of these, around 60,000 people hail from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 25,000 from Fata, 180,000 from Punjab, 13,725 from Sindh, 3,000 from Balochistan and nearly 4,000 from Islamabad.

While speaking to The Express Tribune, Sahibzada Hassan Ali, the spokesperson for the election commission, confirmed that the registration of around 60,000 people from K-P could not be verified.

He added 86,000 members from Peshawar have been verified through mobile phone services.

“Of these 19,326 belong to Town-I, 23,080 from Town-II, 24,509 from Town-III and 19,602 from Town-IV,” he added.

“After Ramazan, the date for PTI’s intra-party elections will be announced,” he said. “The polls had been postponed due to some internal matters.”

At least five PTI candidates will contest for provincial president’s seat in the upcoming intra-party elections.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 23^rd, 2016.