PTI Balochistan Chief Sardar Rind Disqualified From Contesting Elections
PTI Balochistan Chief Sardar Rind Disqualified From Contesting Elections: Both the provincial chiefs of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan Peoples’ Party have been barred from contesting elections by the Balochistan High Court.
On Tuesday, a division bench of BHC upheld the verdict of an appellate tribunal disqualifying Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind from contesting elections scheduled for July 25.
Rind, who had joined the party in 2015, submitted his nomination papers from NA-260 and PB-17, Naseerabad/Jhal Magsi for the upcoming general elections. His nomination papers had been rejected by the returning officer (RO).
The PTI leader has challenged the tribunal’s order in the BHC. He was ruled ineligible for polls on the grounds that he possessed a fake degree and there are several cases registered against him.
Rind has challenged the Higher Education Commission (HEC) notification in the Supreme Court declaring his degree from a Sukkur seminary fake.
The same bench had also disqualified PPP’s Ali Madad Jattak from polls, who was vying for the PB-31 seat in Quetta. The BHC ruled that the PPP leader is a convict and cannot be allowed to contest polls.
The same divisional bench of the BHC also upheld the disqualification of PPP’s provincial president, who was vying for the PB-31 seat in Quetta.
Announcing its reserved decision on the petition, the bench ruled that Ali Madad Jattak, the PPP’s Balochistan chief, cannot be allowed to contest the elections.
Jattak was earlier disqualified by appellate tribunal of the BHC and RO for being convicted in a fake degree case. Jattak had then challenged the judgements of the tribunal and the RO.
The Constitution bars convicts in certain cases from contesting elections unless a period of five years has lapsed since their release.
The court also reserved judgement with regard to the disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Balochistan chief Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind. The appellate tribunal and RO had rejected Rind’s nomination papers for submitting a fake degree and being nominated in several first information reports (FIRs) in murder and kidnapping cases.
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