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| January 30, 2003 | Thursday | Ziqa’ad 26,1423 |
Dr Farrukh’s papers for Senate rejected
ISLAMABAD Jan 29: A corporate analyst and eminent columnist, Dr Farrukh Saleem, whose nomination paper for sole technocrat seat of the federal capital in the Senate was rejected, has alleged that the government wanted to get former Senate chairman Wasim Sajjad elected unopposed.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, Dr Saleem said his papers were rejected by the returning officer on the ground that he had not mentioned, a per election rules, any national or international achievement against his name. The returning officer had been grilling him for production of 16 years education certificate from the university in US, he added.
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