ISLAMABAD: Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of Islamabad High Court (IHC) dismissed on Friday a petition seeking disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Petitioner Waheed Kamal had challenged Nawaz's eligibility through the petition filed under Article 199 of the Constitution.

The petitioner argued before the court that Nawaz has been accused in graft cases, including the Mehran Bank scandal, and had allegedly received Rs3.3million from the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) to destabilise the government of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) during the early 1990s.

The scandal, popularly known as Mehrangate, was a major political scandal in the history of Pakistan in 1990-1994 where senior politicians and political parties were accused of receiving millions of rupees from the ISI.

The petitioner; Kamal requested the court to disqualify Nawaz as he was not an honest or a sagacious person.

He also requested the court to disqualify Member National Assembly Jamshed Dasti as he leveled false allegations on the parliamentarians which he could not prove.

Justice Siddiqui dismissed the petition after the preliminary hearing claiming it as non-maintainable.