LHC allows Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to contest elections

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The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday allowed former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to unconditionally take part in the upcoming general elections from the NA 51 constituency in Rawalpindi.

The permission was given by the court in its final decision in a petition filed by Ashraf against the rejection of his nomination papers by an election tribunal.

The Rawalpindi constituency includes the Gujjar Khan village which is Ashraf’s native village.

During the hearing of the petition on April 18, the court had given provisional green light for Ashraf to contest the elections, ordering the Election Commission of Pakistan to include the name of the former prime minister in the list of valid candidates.On April 7, the RO for NA 51 had rejected the nomination papers of Ashraf. Subsequently, an election tribunal upheld the RO’s decision and dismissed an appeal filed by Ashraf on April 15, in light of objections raised by a former union nazim of Gujjar Khan.

A group of lawyers including Farooq H Naek, Sardar Latif Khan Khosa, Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon and president of LHC bar association Abid Saqi represented the former prime minister before the bench comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Syed Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi.

17 COMMENTS

  1. May Allah's smite be on these corrupt judges for allowing these vile & evil men to run for the state.

  2. A former BATA shoe saleman who became a billionaire is allowed to contest elections and a former COAS is not. What a joke.

  3. Somehow justice system instead of punishing such criminals, they decide to help them!

    With this kind of courts and justice system, democracy will not work in Pakistan for another 1000 years!

  4. Is this a joke? first the courts disallow him to contest and then all of a sudden everything is okay? Makes no sense at all.

  5. Allama Tahirul Qadri was right . This is an engineered election through senile Election Commission and now a Judiciary with no legs.

  6. This is a direct result of people voting for dishonest politicians who put these puppet judges in place to play with our lives.How can the judges give him permission to UNCONDITIONALLY run for elections.PPP is working their magic like they have for the last 5 years.This does not surprise me one bit.That little white speck on top of the chicken s**h**i**t** is also chicken s**h**i**t** I used to respect the judiciary in Pakistan,now I know better.

  7. judiciary and election tribunal all corrupt and raja pervez ashraf shame on you plz have some shame and go in hiding and tak gilani ,maliq rehman and zardari with you plz_

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