{"id":22445,"date":"2024-01-10T11:16:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T06:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=22445"},"modified":"2024-01-10T11:16:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T06:16:53","slug":"the-tribunal-upheld-the-decision-to-reject-imran-khans-nomination-papers-for-na-122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/the-tribunal-upheld-the-decision-to-reject-imran-khans-nomination-papers-for-na-122\/","title":{"rendered":"The tribunal upheld the decision to reject Imran Khan’s nomination papers for NA-122"},"content":{"rendered":"

LHC Justice Tariq Nadeem announces the verdict after hearing the arguments.<\/p>\n

LAHORE: An appellate tribunal established by the Lahore High Court (LHC) upheld the returning officer’s (RO) decision to reject Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan’s nomination papers from Lahore’s NA-122 constituency.<\/p>\n

A lawyer for the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) told the tribunal that the PTI founder had been disqualified and that his proposer did not reside in the NA-122 constituency.<\/p>\n

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Justice Tariq Nadeem of the Appellate Tribunal announced the verdict after hearing the arguments.<\/p>\n

On December 30, 2023, Khan’s nomination papers were rejected for a National Assembly constituency in Lahore and his hometown of Mianwali.<\/p>\n

The former prime minister, who was barred from holding public office for five years in the Toshakhana case, had filed nomination papers from Lahore’s NA-122 and Mianwali’s NA-89 constituencies for the February 8, 2024 elections.<\/p>\n

“The PTI founder has been convicted,” said the RO in charge of scrutinising the NA-122 constituency nomination papers, explaining the reasoning behind the decision.<\/p>\n

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The objections, raised by PML-N’s Mian Naseer, referred to Khan’s five-year disqualification in the Toshakhana case, where the electoral body found him guilty of corrupt practices under Section 167 of the Elections Act of 2017.<\/p>\n

“PTI founder’s proposer and seconder do not belong to NA-122,” the objection stated.<\/p>\n

Multiple objections were raised against Khan’s nomination papers filed from his NA-89 Mianwali stronghold, including Toshakhana’s disqualification, having an illegitimate daughter, and failing to pay Rs3.6 million in social security funds.<\/p>\n

The returning officer agreed with the objections and rejected the former prime minister’s nomination papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LHC Justice Tariq Nadeem announces the verdict after hearing the arguments. LAHORE: An appellate tribunal established by the Lahore High Court (LHC) upheld the returning officer’s (RO) decision to reject Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan’s nomination papers from Lahore’s NA-122 constituency. A lawyer for the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) told the tribunal that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2,147],"tags":[10630,10554,148,103],"class_list":["post-22445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-na-122","tag-nomination-papers","tag-ecp","tag-imran-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}