However, particular minorities’ groups have not been able to benefit from the restored system of joint electorate such as Ahmadi community, for whom the separate voter’s lists were still used in election of 2008. Similarly, in the last union council elections at town level the minority’s members were elected indirectly. Further more, the under representation of minorities is also affecting greatly the socio-economic status of minorities minimizing their participation in public life. In the overall decision making process, the true aspirations and needs of minorities are not dealt accordingly because of the under representation. In the national assembly of Pakistan there are only 10 reserved seats for minorities, where as in the Senate it is only in 2009 that two minority representative have been elected from Hindu community. In local bodies, the union council which is the first level of the municipal government there is direct election but at the district level again the system of indirect election is being practiced. Consequently, the members of the respective minority’s communities are not able to play any visible role. Thus, the effectiveness of minority representatives is questionable, because the minority communities are residing in scattered localities and their number is very little against the size of the majority population at union council level. The minorities have complained that they have been given lesser numbers of seats as compared to their actual number of population. In this regard it is notable that in recent years, the numbers of representatives in national and provincial assemblies were increased from 207 to 342 but the numbers of the seats for minority are the same. Presently, there are three ministers at federal and provincial levels one from Christian minority at federal level whereas, one each in the provincial cabinet of Sindh & Punjab which affect their due participation and representation in high level decision making bodies.