IHC issues notices to 3 PTI lawmakers in disqualification case
- By Web Desk -
- Apr 18, 2019
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday issued notices to three Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers on petitions seeking their disqualification as members of the National Assembly, ARY News reported.
Justice Aamir Farooq of the IHC directed Kanwal Shauzab, Malaika Bukhari and Tashfeen Safdar to submit their comments on the petitions seeking their disqualification under Article 26 and 63 of the country’s Constitution.
The hearing was adjourned for a week.
The petitioners through their lawyer requested the court to suspend the membership of the lawmakers until the petitions are decided by it.
They stated that Bukhari should be declared ineligible to be member of Parliament for possessing dual nationality, whereas Tashfeen Safdar be also disqualified for concealing information about her dual nationality in her nomination papers.
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Last year in Oct, the Supreme Court had disqualified two PML-N leaders – former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s sister Sadia Abbasi and Haroon Akhtar Khan – as members of the Senate over dual nationality.
A seven-member bench of the apex court, headed by then chief justice Mian Saqib Nisar, directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold election to these two Senate seats afresh.
It held that both the PML-N leaders possessed foreign nationality at the time of submission of their nomination papers for the Senate election earlier this year. They are disqualified as members of the Senate,it ruled.