LAHORE, Aug 29: Nomination papers of Nawaz Sharif and his wife Kulsoom Nawaz were cleared for National Assembly seats NA-121 and NA-122, respectively, by the returning officers concerned here on Thursday.

The scrutiny of nomination papers of Shahbaz Sharif and Kulsoom Nawaz for NA-119 will be held on Friday (today).

However, the Muslim League (QA) suffered its first setback when the nomination papers of former Olympian Akhtar Rasool — its city chief — were rejected for being a “convict in the Supreme Court attack and mis-declaring his assets.”

Other politicians whose papers were found in order for NA seats from Lahore are: Mian Azhar, Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Hafiz Salman Butt, Nasir Jabran (nephew of Mian Azhar), Dr Tahirul Qadri, Mian Zakaur Rehman, Humayun Akhtar Khan, Altaf Ahmad Qureshi, Pervez Saleh, Javed Hashmi, Kamil Ali Agha, Mian Abdul Sattar, Farid Ahmad Piracha and Engineer Salimullah.

Similarly, those candidates whose papers were accepted for the provincial assembly seats from Lahore included: Dr Anwaarul Haq, Rana Shaukat Mahmood, Humayun and Haroon Akhtar Khan, Shahid Nabi Malik and Aftab Ahmad Lodhi.

The papers of the following candidates were rejected: Chaudhry Asif, Prof Abid Hussain Sandal, Naeem Ahmad Mughal, Ahmad Hussain Khan and Muzaffar Ali Butt.

The scrutiny will continue till Sept 2.