Disqualification references: ECP to confirm on pleas opposite Imran, Tareen
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will confirm on Feb 22 dual references sent by a National Assembly orator seeking suspension of Imran Khan and Jahangir Tareen, an central of a elect pronounced on Wednesday.
Justice (retd) Sardar Raza Khan of a ECP voiced distrurbance over a deficiency of Akram Sheikh, a warn for Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
Some PML-N lawmakers had submitted dual references opposite PTI arch Imran Khan and a party’s secretary-general Jahangir Tareen to a orator of a National Assembly after PTI filed references opposite Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif final year for his disqualification.
Rejecting PTI references opposite a primary minister, a orator sent references opposite PTI leaders to a ECP. The box was referred in Sep final year and a stipulated generation of 90 days for an ECP preference on these references had already expired. Both references are still tentative with a ECP.
On Wednesday, Justice (retd) Sardar Raza Khan admonished a supervision for causing lavish delays and pronounced that a elect would take a preference during a subsequent conference that was bound for Feb 22.
PTI has already filed a petition in a Islamabad High Court (IHC), claiming both references had turn infructuous given these were not motionless within a inherent timeframe. The ECP central countered a evidence and pronounced that there were inherent supplies permitting it to take adult matters not finished on time.
Published in The Express Tribune, Feb 16th, 2017.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1328506/disqualification-references-ecp-decide-pleas-imran-tareen/