Challenging the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)’s decision of barring dual nationality-holders from contesting elections for parliament, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan announced on Wednesday that his party would file a review petition with the ECP seeking a reversal of the decision. “A number of Pakistanis having dual nationalities have vast businesses abroad… They serve the country in the shape of foreign remittances amounting to billions of rupees and they should have the right to contest polls,” he told reporters at a press conference in which former federal law minister from the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Syed Iftikhar Gilani and former provincial minister Iftikhar-ud-Din Khattak joined the PTI.
Responding to a query regarding reports of a secret deal between the government and the military over the memogate scandal, Khan said he was not aware of any secret deal between the government and military over the memo issue but the judiciary should take the issue to its logical end.
Imran to challenge ECP decision on dual nationals
