, Jan. 31 -- Some 458,000 Bangladesh expatriates have so far cast their voters through the postal ballots in the upcoming referendum and the national election scheduled for February 12 next.

"As of 11:30am on Saturday (January 31), a total of 458,059 expatriate voters completed their voting process and of them, 410,928 ballot papers have been dropped in post offices and post boxes in different countries across the world," said Brig Gen (retd) Saleem Ahmad Khan, Team Leader of the Election Commission's OCV-ICPV project.

He said a total of 766,862 postal ballots reached different destinations throughout the world for Out-of-Country Voting (OCV) and of them, 518,345 ballots have already been received by the registered expatriates in variou...