Pakistan, Nov. 4 -- A project to transform the Sindh Assembly into a paperless legislature has hit another delay, with hardware worth the effort already in place but the software needed to digitise parliamentary proceedings yet to be developed. Despite months of preparations and the provision of 180 tablet devices by the European Union, the assembly's transition to an e-Parliament system remains stalled, with software development now emerging as the key hurdle.

The initiative is aimed at replacing the conventional paper-based system of parliamentary proceedings with a digital platform through which lawmakers would be able to access the assembly's entire agenda and related documents on individual tablet devices.

Under the proposed system...