RAWALPINDI: A petition against former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan’s candidature was rejected by an appellate tribunal on Saturday.
Nisar will contest the General Election 2018 as an independent candidate after his three-decade-long association with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) ended over ideological differences with the party’s leadership. He has filed his nomination papers for constituencies NA-63, NA-59, PP-10, and PP-12.
The petitioner had challenged Nisar’s nomination papers from NA-63 constituency. He stated that the candidate was accused in the Supreme Court attack case.
The appellate tribunal dismissed the petition against Nisar’s candidature, stating that the petitioner was not a voter of NA-63.
On June 13, Nisar’s candidature was challenged from NA-59 Attock-III. The petitioner had taken the same stance, citing Nisar’s involvement in the Supreme Court attack case as the basis to reject his nomination papers from the constituency.