Ex-Pak PM Imran Khan’s Nomination Papers Denied On “Moral” Subjects: Officer
Imran Khan’s five-year disqualification within the Toshakhana case nonetheless stands (Report)
Islamabad:
Jailed former Pakistan top minister Imran Khan’s nomination papers for the February 8 normal elections had been unwelcome because of his conviction within the offence of “moral turpitude” in a corruption case and alternative causes, the returning officer of the Nationwide Meeting seat has stated.
On Saturday, the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) unwelcome the nomination papers of the 71-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf birthday celebration founder and several other of his senior colleagues.
In an eight-page graphic determination, the returning officer (RO) of the Nationwide Meeting seat of Lahore (NA- 122) quoted the judgment of the extra consultation pass judgement on (Islamabad) that established Mr Khan’s conviction within the offence of “moral turpitude,” the Break of day newspaper reported on Monday.
But even so the principle reason why that Mr Khan was once convicted within the Toshakhana corruption case, objections had been raised in opposition to his nomination papers because the proposer and seconder for the PTI’s founder didn’t belong to the respective constituencies.
Despite the fact that the Islamabad Prime Court docket suspended Mr Khan’s sentence, his five-year disqualification within the Toshakhana case nonetheless stands.
The previous cricketer-turned-politician’s candidature was once strike by means of Articles 62 and 63 of the Charter of Pakistan, the RO stated, including that the conviction had now not been suspended or put aside by means of any court docket to day.
“In light of the above, the allegations levelled by the objector, Mian Naseer Ahmad, against the respondent, Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi, are legal and substantial in nature and have succeeded in making out a case against the respondent. Consequently, the papers of the respondent from NA-122 stand rejected,” the record stated, bringing up the decision.
On Saturday, the PTI birthday celebration condemned the lead ballot frame’s rejection of the nomination papers of Mr Khan and several other alternative birthday celebration stalwarts on what it known as “flimsy grounds.” Mr Khan and his senior birthday celebration associate and previous overseas minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had been going through more than one instances and arrests for the reason that Would possibly 9 riots, with each incarcerated on the high-security Adiala prison in Rawalpindi.
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