ISLAMABAD: The election tribunal on Wednesday rejected objections against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan’s candidacy from NA-53 and allowed him to contest polls.
Imran had appeared before the Islamabad election tribunal to fill clause-N of the affidavit submitted with his nomination papers for the constituency. In clause-N, the PTI chief stated that he set up the Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital, established Namal College, and made the nation aware to struggle for its constitutional rights.
Moreover, the PTI chief has been summoned in Peshawar later on Wednesday, after he failed to appear before the election tribunal for the hearing of an appeal against the approval of his nomination papers from NA-35, Bannu.
Earlier, Returning Officer (RO), Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Adnan Khan, had rejected Imran’s nomination papers last week, along with those of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz candidates Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Sardar Mehtab Abbasi and PTI’s Ayesha Gulalai for failing to fill clause-N of the affidavit in which they were required to mention the “contribution” to their respective constituencies during their previous tenure as lawmakers.
Since then, the nomination papers of Shahid Khaqan, Mehtab and Gulalai had been accepted by the tribunal.
