De-seated MNA moves SC

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LAHORE: De-seated MNA from NA-154, Lodhran, Siddique Khan Baloch approached on Tuesday the Supreme Court against the decision of a Multan Election Tribunal that declared his election void and ordered by-election in the constituency.

The tribunal had passed the impugned order on a petition by PTI leader Jahangir Khan Tareen, the runner-up candidate from the constituency.

Mr Baloch filed an appeal through Advocate Shahzad Shaukat at the Lahore registry of the Supreme Court.

The appellant stated the decision of the election tribunal was unlawful and faulty as no institution declared his graduation (BA) degree as fake.

He said a Nadra report that stated that 20,000 votes did not carry CNIC numbers on their counterfoils was misinterpreted. The appellant asked the court to set aside the tribunal’s decision.

Baloch had contested the 2013 general election as an independent candidate and joined the PML-N after his victory.

Published in Dawn, September 9th, 2015

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haris

Sep 09, 2015 01:18pm

"...20,000 votes did not carry CNIC numbers on their counterfoils was misinterpreted." What does that means? Then interpret it correctly.

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asad LATEEF

Sep 09, 2015 09:49pm

@haris what he want to say is that votes which was polled did carry the cnic numbers.the polling staff was not trained to ensure that counterfoils should also be printed with same cnic numbers.million dollar question is people of that area did not complained about bogus polling.the winner is disqulified on irregularities of polling staff

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Azhar Malik

Sep 10, 2015 03:28am

@asad LATEEF In cases of disputes, arbitrators or courts are the places to resolve the disputes and not the violence on the roads. In case, the decision of the court at the primary level is not acceptable to one of the parties, then that party has the right to move to the higher court and finally to the Supreme Court. There is nothing wrong and no shame in this civilized way. This is just a political slogan to object to someone's going to the Supreme Court.

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