Court rulings on rejected ballots
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March 14, 2021
ISLAMABAD: There is a large amount of case law in the Supreme Court on the question of rejected ballots, the intention and identity of voters and the violation of the secrecy of votes.
A comprehensive research conducted by prominent lawyer Kashif Malik about several judgments on the subject is available with The News. He said he had a look at the archives of past judicial verdicts to assess the relevance or otherwise of the arguments on the rejection of seven votes by the presiding officer in the Senate chairman’s election.
In 1987, the apex court dealt with the issue of ballot papers on which the prescribed mark to indicate the candidate in whose favour the vote was cast was put outside the area containing the name and symbol of the contesting candidate for whom the voter was supposed to have voted.
Court rulings on rejected ballots
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National
March 6, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The requisition of the National Assembly session on Saturday (today) by President Dr Arif Alvi under Article 91(7) of the Constitution requiring Prime Minister Imran Khan to get a vote of confidence has generated a heated debate among the constitutional experts.
Commenting on the development, eminent lawyer and PPP Senator Raza Rabbani told The News that when the president asks the prime minister to go for a confidence vote, he summons the National Assembly on his own and does not do so on the premier’s advice as has been done now.
In the present case, Rabbani said, the prime minister sent the advice to the president to call the National Assembly session for the purpose, which runs counter to the Constitution.