PESHAWAR: An appellate tribunal has declare PTI’s Murad Saeed and Azam Sawati to be eligible for the Senate election.
The appellate tribunal set up by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for listening to the poll-related complaints heard Swati’s petition against rejection of his nomination papers on Senate’s general and technocrat seats ahead of the poll.
However, the tribunal would announce its verdict after deliberations on the politician’s appeal for his nomination for technocrat seat.
The hearing was conducted by tribunal’s judge Justice Shakeel Ahmad in which lawyers from both sides appeared. The judge questioned on which grounds, the nominations were rejected.
Swati’s lawyer apprised Justice Ahmad that there were a total of three persons filed objections against his client’s nomination, of which two complaints were not candidates in the forthcoming election.
Swati provided details of cases against him in nominations for Senate poll, which were not provided during general elections, the counsel said while detailing genre of objections before the tribunal.
The election commission’s tribunal approved the firebrand PTI leader’s nomination papers for general seat. The tribunal would decide on his appeal against rejection of his nomination for technocrat seat in next hearing.
Meanwhile, the tribunal also declared another PTI leader Murad Saeed eligible for contesting upcoming Senate election. The forum accepted Saeed’s appeal against rejection of his nomination papers by the election commission.
A few days ago, the top electoral body rejected the nomination papers of senior leaders of the Imran-founded party, who have been nominated from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on general and technocrat seats.
