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Panamagate: Ineligibility criteria could not lowered after election, PM’s counsel

ISLAMABAD: The five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa has resumed hearing the Panama Leaks case seeks seeking declaring Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to hold his position over the revelation of of the names of his children in the Panama Papers.

Counsel of the prime minister Makhdoom Ali Khan continues arguing his side of the case from where he had left it off yesterday. The issue of ineligibility could be raised at the time of the filing of nomination papers and after election the criteria of ineligibility could not be lowered, however, application of co-warranto could be filed, he argued. The issues of fake degrees were are resolved at tribunal level, he added.

At this point in time Justice Khosa told Makhdoom that the cases he is referring to were against the election Commission not the tribunal.