LAHORE, Aug 3: Advocate M. D. Tahir has again approached the Lahore High Court seeking disqualification of Shaukat Aziz from contesting by-election and a direction to the Chief Election Commissioner to stay elections in Attock and Tharparker.

The petitioner-lawyer submitted that he filed a writ petition on the subject on July 16 and it was returned the next day by the high court registrar office with the objection that he should first seek remedy from the Election Commission of Pakistan.

He stated that he had sent his petition to the commission on July 20 but he was yet to be informed by the commission about the action taken in redressing his grievance. He requested the LHC that by-elections to two National Assembly constituencies be stayed till the decision on his petition.

Advocate Tahir challenged the bonafide of Mr Aziz, the prime minister-in-waiting, as a citizen of Pakistan and stated that he hardly had any awareness of the problems facing the country and its people. He was a foreign national and working to advance an alien agenda in Pakistan.

His election would harm the national interest, he added. He submitted that Mr Aziz might be a "respectable guest" but not a Pakistani and a disputed person. He was not expected to serve the national interest.