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March 16, 2021
ISLAMABAD: He was out of service for a couple of months spending a retired life in Lahore when Sikandar Sultan Raja received a call from the federal capital. The person on the other side was his former batch-mate.
“Prime Minister will nominate you for the post of Chief Election Commissioner,” the batch-mate informed Raja. This was the time when the government and the opposition had failed to explore a consensus on a candidate for this constitutional post. Raja couldn’t believe his words. “How credible is this news,” asked Raja to determine the veracity of that news.
How Raja was appointed CEC
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March 16, 2021
ISLAMABAD: He was out of service for a couple of months spending a retired life in Lahore when Sikandar Sultan Raja received a call from the federal capital. The person on the other side was his former batch-mate.
“Prime Minister will nominate you for the post of Chief Election Commissioner,” the batch-mate informed Raja. This was the time when the government and the opposition had failed to explore a consensus on a candidate for this constitutional post. Raja couldn’t believe his words. “How credible is this news,” asked Raja to determine the veracity of that news.
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March 10, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Tuesday rejected a PTI petition seeking to withhold the notification of Senator-elect Yusuf Raza Gilani’s victory and making the allegedly bribed parliamentarians party to the matter.
A four-member bench of the Commission asked PTI lawyer to file an amended petition making the lawmakers alleged to have been bribed a party.
Gilani was the consensus candidate of Pakistan Democratic Movement against Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh of PTI and its allied parties in March 3 Senate polls. Senator-elect from Punjab Barrister Ali Zafar of PTI, who appeared before the Commission as counsel for PTI, argued that rigging was carried out during the Senate polls through money and offer of party tickets.
ECP to hear petition against Ali Gilani on 11th
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March 6, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Friday fixed for hearing a petition filed by PTI MNAs Farrukh Habib and Kanwal Shozab against Ali Haider Gilani, son of PPP leader and Senator-elect Yusuf Raza Gilani, in the video case on March 11.
A five-member bench of the Election Commission will hear the petition. The PTI alleges that Haider was involved in sale and purchase of conscience of MNAs for his father’s election.
The ECP also set for hearing a petition against PTI for alleged corruption in the Senate elections and giving money to women members. It will also hear a petition on March 11 filed by PPP Secretary General Nayyar Bukhari. It may be recalled that on March 2, a day before the Senate elections, the alleged video of Ali Haider Gilani went viral in which he allegedly tells a PTI MNA how to waste ballot papers.