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ISLAMABAD: The National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) registered a case against former chairman Muzaffar Ali Shah in connection with the voters’ data theft.
The complaint was filed on behalf of NADRA’s chief of staff Tahir Maqsood in Islamabad. According to the FIR, Shah was removed from his post following allegations of sexual harassment, but he also successfully stole sensitive data from the main database along with other office equipment.
There is growing fear that the data might land in wrong hands. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf had alleged that NADRA authorities stole the voters’ data for Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) and handed it to them.
On June 20, NADRA rejected all allegations regarding leakage of its data. All four directors held a press conference at the authority’s headquarters to respond to allegations of sharing voters’ data with people.
The NADRA officials categorically stated that no data in any shape was shared with any political party or any irrelevant individual. They said Shah was leveling baseless allegations and presenting proof of data leakage “which has no worth of any sort”.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had, through a letter to NADRA Chairman Usman Yousaf Mobin, also alleged that the authority’s officials had shared details of voters with “unrelated persons”.
The ECP mentioned some news reports which gave information on age and gender in electoral rolls and said it suspected that the data could have been leaked by NADRA.
According to DG Project NADRA Zulfiqar Ali, an internal email was shown on television by a private channel regarding alleged data leakage. “The email was not linked to data leakage,” he said, adding that an internal email of a year ago had been cited for leveling allegations.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1746598/1-voters-data-leak-nadra-frames-former-official-theft/
The complaint was filed on behalf of NADRA’s chief of staff Tahir Maqsood in Islamabad. According to the FIR, Shah was removed from his post following allegations of sexual harassment, but he also successfully stole sensitive data from the main database along with other office equipment.
There is growing fear that the data might land in wrong hands. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf had alleged that NADRA authorities stole the voters’ data for Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) and handed it to them.
On June 20, NADRA rejected all allegations regarding leakage of its data. All four directors held a press conference at the authority’s headquarters to respond to allegations of sharing voters’ data with people.
The NADRA officials categorically stated that no data in any shape was shared with any political party or any irrelevant individual. They said Shah was leveling baseless allegations and presenting proof of data leakage “which has no worth of any sort”.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had, through a letter to NADRA Chairman Usman Yousaf Mobin, also alleged that the authority’s officials had shared details of voters with “unrelated persons”.
The ECP mentioned some news reports which gave information on age and gender in electoral rolls and said it suspected that the data could have been leaked by NADRA.
According to DG Project NADRA Zulfiqar Ali, an internal email was shown on television by a private channel regarding alleged data leakage. “The email was not linked to data leakage,” he said, adding that an internal email of a year ago had been cited for leveling allegations.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1746598/1-voters-data-leak-nadra-frames-former-official-theft/
