INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NADRA officials reject data leak claimsISLAMABAD: Officials at National Database Regulatory Authority (NADRA)
Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, four NADRA directors said that no data had ever been breached by the authority
He said that an old email was run by a TV channel, which had nothing to do with the data leakage
He said that a NADRA officer, Syed Muzaffir Ali, who was sacked on corruption charges, has leveled allegations of data leakage
He said that such allegations had been levelled in the past also
On Monday, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) wrote to the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) Chairman Usman Yousaf
Mobin, over an alleged voters data leak to outsiders, fearing a potential threat to the computerised electoral rolls system (CERS).The ECP
wrote a letter to the Nadra chairman and sought urgent measures and actions before the act impacts the credibility of Nadra and the ECP at
the Nadra chairman that as per the contract signed between the ECP and Nadra in June 2011, Nadra is acting as a faithful service provider to
with great concern that there exists a potential threat to security of data relating to the computerised electoral rolls system
Apropos to the article/report published on May 25 and May 28 in a English daily, showing that there are insiders who have crept into the
commission but on the contrary, the report was shared with non-recipients before it reached this commission, thus raising eyebrows
It also supported the apprehension that other data related to voters might also have been shared with unauthorised hands when such data
It requires urgent measures and actions be taken before it impacts the credibility of Nadra and the ECP at large as custodian of the
necessary tangible measures are required urgently to avoid such incidents in future
aside the impression, created by some media reports that the letter was written after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf had moved the ECP
A spokesperson for the ECP said that nothing hitherto had been received from the PTI in this connection, whereas the letter to Nadra
chairman was written by the commission on its own.It merits a mention here that PTI Chairman Imran Khan had called for removal of Nadra
chairman and also alerted senior vice-president of the party Dr Babar Awan, a day before Eid, to file a petition in the Election Commission.
