September 05, 2008	Friday	Ramazan 04, 1429

ISLAMABAD, Sept 4: Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court (IHC) here on Thursday disposed of a writ petition filed by Syed Iqtdar Shah for postponement of Presidential election.

He was seeking disclosure of the name of the parliamentarian who wrote “Pakhtunkhaw Zindabad and Pakistan Murdabad” at his ballot paper in the presidential election of 1997.

However, the IHC CJ Sardar Mohammad Aslam directed the Secretariat police to submit its report within 15 days with the Deputy Registrar Office regarding the FIR that was registered in this case.

According to the details the petitioner Syed Muhammad Iqtdar Shah has taken the view before the IHC that in the presidential election of 1997 some member of the parliament wrote on his ballot paper “Pakhtunkhaw Zindabad, Pakistan Murdabad”.

The petitioner Iqtdar Shah then filed his writ petition before the Lahore High Court that in 2007 seeking direction to the secretariat police to register an FIR.

The petitioner said that the majority of the sitting member of the Parliament in the present assembly was those who were also members of the Parliament in the 1997 National Assembly. He prayed that till the disclosure of the name of that person who wrote that slogan, the presidential election may be stayed.

The petitioner has also adopted the view that the Defence Minister Ch Ahmad Mukhtar knows the name of that person.

In another case Malik Abdur Rehman Sadiq a leader of a local religious organization of Gujranwala has also challenged the presidential election before the IHC.

The petitioner has adopted the view that as a candidate for the office of president he was to submit his nomination papers but the administration stopped him from doing so.

In his writ petition Malik Abdur Rehman Sadiq has said that all the three candidates that belong to the three major political parties are not eligible for the office of the President. He said if the September 6 election were not stopped one of ineligible persons would be elected as president. He has prayed to the court to stay the election. The IHC CJ Sardar Mohammad Aslam would hear the case on Friday.