ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that it intended to determine whether the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) Feb 25 decision to hold fresh by-election in the entire NA-75 Daska constituency was in accordance with its constitutional mandate keeping in view the urgency of the situation that prevailed on polling day.
“The question before the apex court is to determine that the standard of the proof, quantum of evidence and the degree of violation and the law and order situation necessitated re-poll in its entirety,” observed Justice Umar Ata Bandial, who was heading a three-judge SC bench also consisting of Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed and Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi.
PDM hands over memo to CEC
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January 21, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The leaders of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) handed over a memorandum to Chief Election Commission (CEC) Sultan Sikandar Raja at his office here on Wednesday.
The CEC assured the PDM delegation that the case on foreign funding would be decided soon and on merit.
Talking to newsmen after handing over the memorandum, PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal said Imran Khan would be disqualified within 24 hours once the ECP decides the foreign funding case. Former Prime Minister Raja Parvaiz Ashraf and other PDM leaders were present on the occasion.
Ahsan hoped the ECP would decide the case in a transparent way. “The PTI is also filing a case against the PML-N and the PPP but once the case against the PTI is decided, Imran Khan will be disqualified in 24 hours,” he said, adding that the case was the biggest scandal in the country’s political history. He said the political party not only obtained funds fro
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January 21, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The leaders of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) handed over a memorandum to Chief Election Commission (CEC) Sultan Sikandar Raja at his office here on Wednesday.
The CEC assured the PDM delegation that the case on foreign funding would be decided soon and on merit. Talking to newsmen after handing over the memorandum, PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal said Imran Khan would be disqualified within 24 hours once the ECP decides the foreign funding case. Former Prime Minister Raja Parvaiz Ashraf and other PDM leaders were present on the occasion.
Ahsan hoped the ECP would decide the case in a transparent way. “The PTI is also filing a case against the PML-N and the PPP but once the case against the PTI is decided, Imran Khan will be disqualified in 24 hours,” he said, adding that the case was the biggest scandal in the country’s political history. He said the political party not only obtained funds from prohibited sources including
Top Story
January 21, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The leaders of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) handed over a memorandum to Chief Election Commission (CEC) Sultan Sikandar Raja at his office here on Wednesday. The CEC assured the PDM delegation that the case on foreign funding would be decided soon and on merit. Talking to newsmen after handing over the memorandum, PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal said Imran Khan would be disqualified within 24 hours once the ECP decides the foreign funding case. Former Prime Minister Raja Parvaiz Ashraf and other PDM leaders were present on the occasion.
Ahsan hoped the ECP would decide the case in a transparent way. “The PTI is also filing a case against the PML-N and the PPP but once the case against the PTI is decided, Imran Khan will be disqualified in 24 hours,” he said, adding that the case was the biggest scandal in the country’s political history. He said the political party not only obtained funds from prohibited sources including