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ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Speaker has forwarded a reference to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seeking disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan from the legislature, Geo News reported late on Sunday night.
The reference, which was filed on Aug 4 by PML-N MNAs, would have automatically stood referred to the ECP at the end of a 30-day period under Article 63 of the Constitution.
Quoting National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, the channel said the reference stated that Imran Khan had made “misstatements” about his Bani Gala property.
According to the channel, the speaker noted that Mr Khan had declared he had received the property as a gift, whereas he had actually purchased it from his ex-wife, Jemima Goldsmith.
Published in Dawn, September 5th, 2016
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Sep 05, 2016 08:28am
National Assembly parliamentarians are useless what is their output and how much the nation spen on them do hey deserve to be kept ir burden on economy
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Sep 05, 2016 08:28am
Now lets see what the speaker does with the reference seeking disqualification of Nawaz Shareef and family.
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Sep 05, 2016 08:31am
If the speaker is credible enough he should also send references against all MNAs including Nawaz & Co who has lied in their electoral documents.
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Sep 05, 2016 08:31am
PMLN at its worst and committing a blunder. I hope ECP disqualify Imran and then the game will start. No reference against Nawaz Shared but references will now flow again st the opposition. Democracy Pakistani style.
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Sep 05, 2016 08:33am
Honourable speaker of NA, so quick to send reference against IK to ECP; but was never able to sent references against NS to ECP.
Very clear what kind of system is in practice in Pakistan. Action speaks louder than words.
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Sep 05, 2016 08:40am
The shoe is on the other foot now. It is about time that those maligning every one and their brother should face accountability.
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Sep 05, 2016 08:49am
What a joke, by a de-seated/re-seated politician and NA speaker with questionable reputation. Its best not to talk about things which you can't afford to buy.
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Sep 05, 2016 08:49am
This is the height of stupidity and high handednes of the Nawaz government.
God bless Imran Khan
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Sep 05, 2016 09:10am
Speaker is a smart guy,he will divert all such cases to ECP for consideration.
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Sep 05, 2016 09:17am
Speaker and parliament members are incompetent if they were doing their job according to laws of constitutions, they all members including PM would have been disqualified long time ago. They don't have any ambitious to solve critical issues.
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Sep 05, 2016 09:21am
Imran has successfully brought the government to play on a turf oh his choice. His ground, his game, his plan.
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Sep 05, 2016 09:24am
Good publicity provided to Imran by PMLN. It will be even great IF ecp actually disqualifies him from Parliament. Great victim card.
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Sep 05, 2016 09:27am
Does Speaker of NA has a right to file the case for disqualification by himself where is himself a speaker. will he file case against shareef family too as he is speaker and speaker should always be a unbiased / Neutral. moreover bani Gala is gifted or bought by any one but not been bought after doing corruption
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Sep 05, 2016 09:27am
Personally I think Mr Imran Khan is very self centered person all he wants is to become the PM of Pakistan by hook or by crook just put another feather in his hat, instead of focusing on the problems of his mandate and working along side the government all he is doing is creating mischief. Innocent people are killed and injured life comes to stand still in a country every time he gives a Dharna call . All the protest he has made so far have not really solved any major issues. In my own opinion he was good sports man but he is not a good statesman.
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Sep 05, 2016 09:39am
This is the political blunder by PMLN and here Speaker acted in capacity of PMLN worker rather than speaker.
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Sep 05, 2016 09:41am
so now the speaker wakes up what he doing for the past three years?...
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Sep 05, 2016 09:42am
He has cleared himself many times. He has provided details on how he took loan from Jemima and how this was 'gifted'. I think pml n is missing trick by maligning him for financial corruption. We all know his credibility. Pml n is beter off if they use establishment backed ik as a card.
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Sep 05, 2016 09:45am
Dirty politics, you are pushing him towards agitation. In my personal opinion there is nothing going to happened or least establishment will not let that happened.
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Sep 05, 2016 10:11am
what about references against Nawaz which were submitted earlier than Imran's.
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Sep 05, 2016 10:19am
Lol…waht a joke! Kettle calling the pot black! We deserve these leaders whose lavish life styles are funded by the poor people of Pakistan.
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Sep 05, 2016 10:20am
@Ali So you are totally satisfied about the direction of our country and society and we should all just sit back and watch it unfold?
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Sep 05, 2016 10:21am
Simply put, a taste of his own medicine.
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Sep 05, 2016 11:40am
@Ali He might not be a statesman in your eyes but you have to thank him for bringing awareness, rattling the ground for Nawaz Sharif and assisting the common man by making them aware of their basic constitutional rights.
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Sep 05, 2016 11:41am
Its nothing but dirty politics. Our political system is completely rotten. Misuse of power, funds and manipulation of laws and distortion of constition in practice. Point scoring in reply to reference for Nawaz Sharif disqualification. Reminds Roman imperial dictatorship. How long will it last?
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Sep 05, 2016 11:51am
Indeed shameless pure political vendeta by PMNL speaker of Parlement against PTI leader Imran Khan!
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Sep 05, 2016 12:04pm
PMLN panicking....fun days ahead
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Sep 05, 2016 12:23pm
Natural Accountability starts when injustices touch extremes in a society which seems not far away if we look at the present environment in Pakistan.
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Sep 05, 2016 12:24pm
@Vision786 not all cases only that of IK
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Sep 05, 2016 12:27pm
@Ali do you think Nawaz Sharif and Zardari are good politician?
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Sep 05, 2016 12:39pm
It's expected that Imran gets disqualified. Because ECP is government property just like all departments including Finance, Police, Judiciary etc. I am sure whatever point raised in the reference for disqualification if screening the Speaker or Prime minister or I may say all of the politicians, they will deemed to be disqualified.
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Sep 05, 2016 03:09pm
Whole nation is watching with keen interest as to what the speaker does to Nawaz Shareef and his family disqualification reference filed by PTI.
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Sep 05, 2016 04:45pm
What loss would it be to him ,if disseated ?... Nothing, since he barely attends the National Assembly sessions !
A futile exercise in my personal opinion and waste of time ...
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Sep 05, 2016 05:19pm
@Imran
There was never a shoe...When has any action been taken against NS?
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Sep 05, 2016 05:22pm
And people still think that there is democracy in Pakistan......Why don't they just pass a law that makes it illegal to say or do anything against NS and get it over with? Better yet...legalise corruption.
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Sep 05, 2016 05:43pm
Honestly, what has Imran Khan done for the development of the constituency and it's constituents, from which he was elected to represent them in the National Assembly ?
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Sep 05, 2016 06:47pm
@M.Sethi
Yes...agree. IK needs to do something before he is acceptable. The others? Well we know that they don't do anything other than claiming to have no assets or money...so we should continue electing them...
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Sep 05, 2016 07:47pm
@Ali As you know PML-N government came into power by the hook and crooks rules,
that is why PM does not want to clear his and his family name from Panama leak scandal. Speaker is looking out the interest PM. What this government is done for ordinary person.? The PML-N government deliberately neglected main issues which affect ordinary citizens lives on the daily basis despite their hollow promises before the election. PM and family have special privileges(using tax payers money) to abroad for medical treatments, while poor can't go anywhere for the serious medical emergency in Pakistan. Looks like you are enjoying being the slave of this government.
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Sep 06, 2016 05:04am
@JUSTICE First of all the last elections were pretty much very fair all the reservations PTI had about certain seat the elections were held again on those seat. Secondly as far as improving the condition of a common man, well PTI KP government have not done nothing as well.
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Sep 06, 2016 05:06am
@Iqbal Khan All I am saying is Nawaz sheriff is better then Zardari and Imran
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Sep 06, 2016 05:13am
@Observer Making people Aware once was a good idea. But calling uncalled for strikes over and over again on the same issue is just doing more harm to the country's economy then any good. PTI Dharna Politics is now fading away. This current Dharna call by PTI failed to attract much less people then the last Dharna call.
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