APPEAL
To,
The Honourable Justice (Retd.) Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim
Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan
Honourable Sir,
We appreciate your intellectual & strict process in conducting the 2013 election, but Sir, the Disabled Community (2.6% Census 2002) & (8% to 9% World Bank Survey – Pakistan) has once again been neglected from casting their vote under your kind supervision due to Non-Accessibility.
Sir, most of the polling stations has no ramps for independent access to it for wheelchair users, Walker users or for Persons using crutches. Discrimination & Deprivation of the Disabled Community is clearly evident by the negligence of Election Commission of Pakistan.
Sir, it is the Basic Fundamental Right of every citizen to take part in the conduct of public affairs, the right to vote and to be elected and the right to have access to public service. Whatever form of constitution or government is in force. It is the duty of Election Commission to ensure that citizen has an effective opportunity to enjoy the rights it protects to cast his vote with independency in a Barrier Free environment.
Honourable Sir,
The Disabled Community has high hopes in your fair & transparent line of action in conducting 2013 Election & expects a Right Based & Positive Response from your side.
The Honourable Justice (Retd.) Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim
Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan
Honourable Sir,
We appreciate your intellectual & strict process in conducting the 2013 election, but Sir, the Disabled Community (2.6% Census 2002) & (8% to 9% World Bank Survey – Pakistan) has once again been neglected from casting their vote under your kind supervision due to Non-Accessibility.
Sir, most of the polling stations has no ramps for independent access to it for wheelchair users, Walker users or for Persons using crutches. Discrimination & Deprivation of the Disabled Community is clearly evident by the negligence of Election Commission of Pakistan.
Sir, it is the Basic Fundamental Right of every citizen to take part in the conduct of public affairs, the right to vote and to be elected and the right to have access to public service. Whatever form of constitution or government is in force. It is the duty of Election Commission to ensure that citizen has an effective opportunity to enjoy the rights it protects to cast his vote with independency in a Barrier Free environment.
Honourable Sir,
The Disabled Community has high hopes in your fair & transparent line of action in conducting 2013 Election & expects a Right Based & Positive Response from your side.
NB: Voice out for us –
Please mail this APPEAL to
the Chief Election Commissioner
Address: Election
Commission of Pakistan, Secretariat, Election House Constitution Avenue G-5/2 Islamabad
All the govt. servants have transfer but in District pakpattan Dy. District Education Officer (Female) Tehsil Pakpattan and Dy District Education Officer Tehsil Arifwala these both Officers are local and resident of their tehsil So Please transfer them because these officers compain her favourite candidates in Pakpattan these officers must be create problams for peoples Please transfer them they also have big relation with big officers and not easy to transfer other districts
ReplyDeleteDisabled people exist in Pakistan the same way they exist in other countries around the world. Yet, disabled people are more 'visible' in other parts of the world as compared to Pakistan. In Pakistan, people who are unfortunately bound by immobility have no option but to stay 'hidden' and home-bound since they are not facilitated to access venues of social participation.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad to see that there are no ramp provisions or facilitations for people in Pakistan who might be benefited by riding wheelchairs. In places like England, they have planned cities with the conscious awareness of laying down footpaths next to roads with ramps linking the two. Even their bus systems are designed such that people with wheelchairs can get on and off a bus quite easily.
On the contrary, in Pakistan, amazingly, there are no ramps for wheelchairs catered by most schools, restaurants, grocery stores, bookshops, mosques, pharmacies, shopping malls, movie theatres, public transport facilities, post offices, and so on, with only a handful of respect-worthy exceptions such as airports, a few universities, and perhaps some elitist socialising clubs. In the absence of ramps, where would the disabled people go?
Concerned public and private institutions should undertake the social responsibility of incorporating permanent or makeshift ramp provisions that could facilitate people with disabilities to participate in social activities.
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