Major blow to Imran Khan as Pak’s top poll body rejects his nomination papers from two seats
The Hindu
Election Commission of Pakistan rejects nomination papers of Imran Khan and many other PTI stalwarts on "flimsy grounds" ahead of the February 8 general elections in Pakistan, sparking PTI's condemnation and warning of pre-poll rigging.
In a major blow to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ahead of the February 8 general elections, Pakistan’s top poll body on December 30 rejected nomination papers of party founder and former Prime Minister Imran Khan and several of his stalwart colleagues on what they described as “flimsy grounds”.
“The returning officers of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) have rejected Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan’s nomination papers for two national assembly seats – Lahore (NA 122) and Mianwali (NA-89),” the office of the Returning Officer, Lahore, said here.
Besides the main reason that Mr. Khan was convicted in the Toshakhana case, objections were raised against his nomination papers as the proposer and seconder for the PTI’s founder did not belong to the respective constituencies.
Although Mr. Khan’s sentence was suspended by the Islamabad High Court, his disqualification still stands.
“The objections, raised by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Mian Naseer, had referred to Khan’s five-year disqualification in the Toshakhana case wherein the electoral body had found him guilty of corrupt practices.
Mr. Khan, 71, and his senior party colleague and former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi have been facing multiple cases and arrests since the May 9 riots with both incarcerated at the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi.
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