Dhaka, Feb. 5 -- More than 273,000 Bangladeshi expatriates are yet to cast their postal ballots, with six days left before the February-12 national election and referendum, officials said.

The Election Commission has sent the ballots to 767,188 registrant expatriates staying in 123 foreign countries through the postal services.

Of them, 12,170 ballots couldn't be supplied due the voters' address related problems and the ballots finally returned back to Bangladesh.

Among the rest 755,018 postal ballots, 481,725 expatriates already completed their voting process, while 273,293 others have not yet to exercise their voting rights till 3pm on Thursday (February 05) in the upcoming elections, according to the statistics of the Election Commi...