Nawaz Sharif's nomination papers have been challenged a week after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) gave its approval to the candidature of Pakistan's former PM.
Pakistan's apex electoral body approved nomination papers for 6,449 candidates, including 6,094 men and 355 women candidates, for national assembly seats in Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and the federal capital, The News International reported on Monday.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) will move to the election tribunals on Monday to challenge the rejection of nomination papers of scores of its candidates, including party founder Imran Khan, Dawn reported.
Pakistan's former interior minister and Awami Muslim League (AML) supremo Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Sunday that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) disqualified him from contesting the election as they were assured of his success in the upcoming polls, The News International reported
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PTI's Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan accuses "forces of status quo" of resorting to underhanded tactics, jeopardising election transparency and national unity.
The involvement of Pakistan's caretaker government in the approval or rejection of the nomination papers for the upcoming general elections of the prospective candidates was flatly denied by Murtaza Solangi, the caretaker minister of information for the country, according to ARY News.
An uphill task remains for the PTI as it goes into the polls after Imran Khan stepped down as the PTI chairman and handed over the reins to Barrister Gohar Khan, the man who has been in the party for around a year.
Earlier, the Pakistan Election Commission's returning officer (RO) of National Assembly (NA)-130 Lahore accepted the nomination papers of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif for the upcoming general elections, The Express Tribune reported on Tuesday.
The RO, Asghar Joya, completed the scrutiny of the papers and allowed the PML-N chief to contest from the constituency in the upcoming general elections scheduled for February 8 and no objections were against Nawaz's nomination papers.
After the extended deadline for submitting nomination papers for national and provincial constituencies ended on Sunday evening, the 2024 general elections entered the next phase in Pakistan, according to Dawn.