ISLAMABAD:Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has approved nomination papers of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Yousaf Raza Gillani.
While announcing the reserved verdict, the returning officer has rejected the objections raised by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fareed Rehman and allowed the former premier and and joint candidate of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) for Senate elections to contest the elections.
It is to be mentioned here that on February 16, 2021, PTI had challenged Gillani’s nomination papers and accused him of concealing the facts. Yousaf Raza Gillani had not mentioned his sentence in contempt of court case in his nomination papers, PTI leader said.
Fareed Rahman further said that Gillani didn’t fulfill the requirement of Article 62 of the Constitution.
While recording arguments on the objections, the counsel of PDM candidate said that his client was charged not convicted in the case and that Supreme Court (SC) had given him a symbolic sentence.
The sentence of Yousaf Raza Gillani ended in 2017 and he contested the General Elections in 2018, he told.
PTI’s allegations were lies. The time of ECP was wasted on this matter and nomination papers of Yousaf Raza Gilani should be accepted, the lawyer argued.
PPP leader Nayyar Hussain Bukhari said that if the objectors had read Article 63 of the Contitution, they would have not come raised this issue as this article does not apply here.
