ISLAMABAD: Former finance minister Ishaq Dar on Thursday has written a letter to Senate Chairman, stating that he is ready to requisite a virtual oath as member of the upper house of the Parliament of Pakistan at earliest.
Ishaq Dar, in his letter, mentioned that he was elected as Senator on a Technocrat seat of the Senate in the elections held on March 3, 2018. My election to the Senate was notified by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on March 09, 2018 in terms of Section 124 of the Elections Act, 2017, he added.
The ex-minister told, “My nomination to the Senate was challenged. The challenge was dismissed by a learned Division Bench of the Lahore High Court vide its judgment dated March 02, 2018 in Writ Petition No. 168260 of 2018. This judgment was appealed before the Honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan through Civil Appeal No. 352 of 2018. The Honourable Supreme Court suspended the Notification of my election as Senator through its order dated May 08, 2018.”
