Daily Times

The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on Tuesday denied that there was any breach in voters’ data from its systems.

The denial came a day after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) wrote a letter to the authority, in which it raised the issue of a leak of voters’ data by someone in the authority to the PML-N. The ECP letter said that the breach had occurred in the computerised electoral rolls system (CERS).

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday, four director generals of the Nadra rejected the allegations. They said, “There has never been a data breach in the history of Nadra. We have never shared any citizen’s data with anyone.”

They added that in the ECP letter there was no mention of the security breach.

Earlier in the day, a Nadra official told Radio Pakistan that some data had been shared with media persons under the Right to Information law. However, he stressed that the information was not related to electoral rolls, and did not contain any personal data. “The information shared only contained statistical numbers about gender, minorities and age-groups of CNIC holders,” he said.

Published in Daily Times, June 20^th 2018.