{"id":5228,"date":"2022-01-10T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:22:18","slug":"lg-elections-in-islamabad-to-be-held-through-evms-shibli-faraz-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/lg-elections-in-islamabad-to-be-held-through-evms-shibli-faraz-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"LG elections in Islamabad to be held through EVMs: Shibli Faraz claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Shibli Faraz has claimed that the upcoming local government elections in federal capital will be held through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Monday, he said the government is cooperating with the Election Commission of Pakistan regarding the use of EVMs.<\/p>\n<p>He said the commission will be provided with the machines next week for testing and training of staff for local government elections in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Election Commission of Pakistan has also asked the Punjab government to make arrangements for the use of EVMs in its local government elections.<\/p>\n<p>Shibli Faraz said the use of EVMs in local government elections will ensure that the elections are possible through these machines.<\/p>\n<p>He said it has always been effort of Prime Minister Imran Khan to ensure, free, fair and impartial elections, and these objectives will be achieved through the EVMs.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question, the Minister for Science and Technology said a mechanism is also being evolved for I-voting in order to enable the overseas Pakistanis exercise their right to franchise.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/in-a-first-evms-to-be-tested-in-islamabad-mayor-polls-says-science-minister.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a first, EVMs to be tested in Islamabad mayor polls, says science minister<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Shibli Faraz has claimed that the upcoming local government elections in federal capital will be held through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). Addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Monday, he said the government is cooperating with the Election Commission of Pakistan regarding the use of EVMs. He said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,147,8],"tags":[491,2506,3761,2618,148,209,273],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-politics","category-technology","tag-election-commission-of-pakistan","tag-electronic-voting-machines","tag-federal-minister-for-science-and-technology","tag-shibli-faraz","tag-ecp","tag-pml-n","tag-pti-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}