Disenfranchised: Over 2,000 media men can’t vote

Some journalists called upon ECP to devise a swift strategy to facilitate them to cast their ballot.

ISLAMABAD: Over 2,000 journalists working in Islamabad and Rawalpindi will not be able to cast their ballots in their ancestral areas due to their work on election day.

Some of these journalists have called upon the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to devise a swift strategy to facilitate them to cast their ballot in their respective constituencies on May 11.

A large number of journalists have been assigned election duties by their organisations in the federal capital and neighbuoring Rawalpindi for providing prompt information to the general public.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 10^th, 2013.