Lahore - A Lahore High Court full bench on Thursday directed the election commission to include former Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf in the electoral process, however, the issue of his eligibility to contest elections would be conditional with the judicial decision.
The full bench headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan also issued notice to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB ) for April 22 on the appeal moved by the former PM challenging ECP’s decision of disqualifying him from contesting elections from NA-51 of Gojar Khan.
The Returning Officer (RO) had rejected Raja’s papers after his relative Raja Irfan Aziz, who is also his political rival, alleged that the ex-PM had misused discretionary funds in his constituency. The election tribunal comprising Justice Rauf Ahmad Sheikh and Justice Mamoon Rashid of the LHC Rawalpindi Bench had upheld RO’s decision.
The appellant through Advocate Farooq H Naek submitted that his nomination papers were rejected on the basis of awarding a contract to the National Logistic Cell (NLC), for involvement in the rental power projects (RPPs) case and in a contempt of court case for writing a letter to the Supreme Court, the counsel added.
Naek asserted that his client was not convicted in any court and hence it was a biased decision of the election tribunal to uphold his disqualification, the counsel said, adding that the rule of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ should have been followed in his case.
Farooq Naek requested the bench to nullify the decision of the RO and the election tribunal and allow former premier to contest elections. The bench, after recording the arguments, directed ECP to include the name of Raja Pervaiz Ashraf in the final list of contestants. However, the full bench observed that the issue of eligibility of the former premier to contest elections would be conditional with the court decision.
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