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| 2025 SLG 6 2025 SLD 6 , 2025 PLJ 25 |
W.P. No. 2687 of 2024, decided on 16.1.2024. PLD 2016 SC 944; 2023 SCMR 803 & PLD 1989 SC 396 ref. Date of hearing: 16.1.2024.
Present: Ali Baqar Najafi, Shahid Bilal Hassan & Jawad Hassan, JJ.
Mr. Uzair Karamat Bhandari, Mian Sami-ud-Din, Ameer Hamza Dogar, Asfand Mir, Ali Uzair Bhandari, Rai Muhammad Ali and Abuzar Salman Khan Niazi, Advocates for Petitioner. Mr. Imran Arif Ranjha, Advocate for ECP with Mr. Muhammad Haroon Kasi, Director Law ECP, Ms. Bushra Rasheed, Deputy Director Law ECP. Barrister Abdul Qadoos Sohal, Muhammad Ramzan Chaudhry, Faisal Mahbob Malik and Iftikhar Ahmed Mayo, Advocates for
Respondent No. 3.
IMRAN AHMED KHAN NIAZI--Petitioner
VERSUS
ELECTION TRIBUNAL and 3 others--Respondents
Law: Election Act, 2017
Section: 60 , 62
Election Act, 2017 (XXXIII of 2017)--
----Ss. 60(1), 62(9)(d)(ii) & 232--Constitution of Pakistan, 1974, Art. 63(1)(h)--Nomination papers--Concurrent rejection--Proposer was not belonged to same constituency--Conviction was not suspended--Disqualification of petitioner--Pendency of appeal against conviction--Proposer is not voter of constituency NA-122, Lahore--The conviction had not been suspended or set aside by any competent Court of law till to date, therefore, Criminal Appeal No. 273 of 2023 was pending before Islamabad High Court--The plain and unambiguous meaning leaves no question about disqualification of petitioner to contest elections--The order of Returning Officer as well as Election Tribunal were not to be interfered with in routine unless some exceptional circumstances so warrant--Petition dismissed.. [Para 6, 7, 9 & 11] A, B, C & D
Order
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