September 20, 2002	Friday	Rajab 12, 1423

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LAHORE, Sept 19: The revised petitions challenging disqualification of PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif and Kulsoom Nawaz from the forthcoming elections were filed on Thursday before the Lahore High Court after the inclusion of 52 missing names of the respondents.

The LHC full bench comprising Justice Javed Butar, Justice Ejaz Chaudhry and Justice Jamshed Ali would hear the petitions on Friday.

The LHC officials had returned the petitions unmarked on Wednesday evening, saying that the names of the candidates of the respective constituencies for which both Shahbaz and Kulsoom had submitted their nomination papers had not been mentioned as respondents.

The petitions filed afresh include the names of candidates from NA-119, PP-141 and PP-142 for which Shahbaz had submitted his papers and NA-122 from where Kulsoom had been cleared by the returning officer concerned.

Some 12 validly nominated candidates for NA-119, 19 for NA-141, 18 for PP-142 and 13 for NA-122 would be summoned by the bench as respondents.