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| July 26, 2005 | Tuesday | Jumadi-us-Sani 18, 1426 |
83 disqualified from contesting LB polls
HARIPUR, July 25: The district election authority has disqualified 83 candidates from contesting the local polls, it is learnt. Official sources said here on Monday that some nominations had been rejected on objections raised by rival candidates, particularly about concealment of assets, while the others were disqualified on technical grounds.
However, most of the disqualified candidates are said to have filed appeal with the district returning officer for local body election 2005. According to statistics collected from the office of assistant election commissioner Haripur, 1,762 people are in the run for 585 union councils’ seats of district Haripur.
While entertaining objections by rival candidates during scrutiny process of nomination papers, the respective returning officers of the Haripur and Ghazi tehsils rejected the papers of 30 Muslim (men), 14 Muslim (women), 19 peasant worker (men), 10 peasant worker (women), nine panels of nazims and one candidate on the seat of minority.
Among panels whose nominations were rejected included Syed Nazrana Shah/Mazhar Hussain, Mohammad Anwar /Zahoor Hussain Shah from Kotnajibullah UC. They were contesting against Sardar Haroon Khan, younger brother of former PML-N provincial minister Sardar Mushtaq Khan.
From Shah Maqsood UC, Mohammad Iqbal Malik/Ilyas Khan and their covering panel of Sardar Bahadur/Sardar Mohammed Safeer were debarred on the objection of outgoing UC nazim Saeed Khan Abbasi. The nazim pointed out that both the panels had declared their assets less than the actual.
Likewise, the panel of Babar Nawaz Khan Tareen and Ghulam Jan, candidates for the seats of nazim naib nazim for UC Pandik, was disqualified for concealment of assets on the objection of their opposing panel of Abdul Rasheed/Durrya Khan.
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