LAHORE: A lawyer has filed a petition in the Lahore High Court for the removal of former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf as chief of his political party--All Pakistan Muslim League (APML).

“Musharraf cannot hold a political party since he was disqualified to contest 2013 general election,” Advocate Muhammad Afaaq pleads in his petition, adding that the Election Commission of Pakistan had disqualified the former military dictator under Article 62 and 63 of the Constitution.

The lawyer contends that the Supreme Court recently ruled in ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s case that a disqualified person cannot head a political party. Therefore, he says, the same ruling applies to Musharraf who has been heading a political party despite being disqualified.

The petitioner-lawyer has prayed to the court to order the ECP to remove the former military dictator as president of his political party named APML.

Published in Dawn, March 1st, 2018