Yousaf Raza Gillani requests ECP to dismiss disqualification pleas against him
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Yousaf Raza Gillani requests ECP to dismiss disqualification pleas against him
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) member and Opposition Leader in Senate Yousaf Raza Gillani on Monday has requested the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to dismiss disqualification pleas against him.
The PPP leader has asked the commission to declare the petitions against him as inadmissible as the allegations leveled by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government are baseless and non-serious.
He further called Parliamentary Leader for Railways Farrukh Habib and Parliamentary Secretary for Law and Justice Barrister Maleeka Bokhari as habitual claimants. The case was filed on unauthentic videos, he adopted the stance.
Govt has reservations against entire ECP not any individual: Shahzad Akbar
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Adviser to the Prime Minister on Accountability Barrister Shahzad Akbar says the government has reservations against the entire Election Commission of Pakistan instead of any individual.
Talking to a private news channel, he said according to the Constitution, the Election Commission is bound to hold transparent elections but it failed to hold recent elections in transparent manner.
Shahzad Akbar said the Supreme Court had ordered the Election Commission for eradicating corrupt practices during the elections and use of modern technologies for the purpose.
He said the ECP failed to stop corrupt practices in the elections even after surfacing of Ali Haider Gillani s video and did not take any action on the video.
A talk on hurdles in quest of democracy
Karachi
March 15, 2021
The audience in the Jaun Elia Lawn of the Karachi Arts Council relished former Senate chairman Raza Rabbani’s response after journalist Mazhar Abbas asked him who “basically” within his Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had opposed his nomination against Sadiq Sanjrani in 2018 for three more years. Rabbani smilingly replied: “Just my luck!” And then everyone laughed together.
They were present on the stage to conduct a session titled ‘In Quest of Democracy’ as part of the Sindh Literature Festival on Sunday afternoon.
Abbas started off the discussion by throwing a question at Rabbani that whether what they did to Federal Finance Minister Hafeez Sheikh during the Senate elections had happened to them during the voting for the chairmanship of the upper house.