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February 26, 2021
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday restored the returning officer’s order with regard to acceptance of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s candidate Saifullah Abro and directed the election commission to include the name of PTI candidate in the final list of Senate polls candidates from Sindh on the technocrat seat. The direction came on petition of the PTI candidate against rejection of his nomination papers for the Senate poll technocrat seat by the Senate appellate tribunal of SHC. The appellate tribunal for Senate poll in Sindh had rejected the nomination papers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s candidate Safiullah Abro for the Senate elections, observing that the PTI candidate did not qualify to fall in the domain technocrat seat.
Appellate tribunal rejects nomination papers of PTI candidate for Senate technocrat seat
Karachi
February 23, 2021
The Senate appellate tribunal at the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday rejected the nomination papers of a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) candidate for the technocrat seats of the Senate from Sindh, observing that the candidate did not qualify to contest the Senate elections on a technocrat seat.
Appellant Ghulam Mustafa Memon had challenged the acceptance of nomination papers filed by PTI candidate Saifullah Abro for a technocrat seat. The counsel for the appellant, Rasheed A Razvi, submitted that the impugned order by the returning officer (RO) was untenable and liable to be set aside. He said that the respondent did not qualify within the statutory definition of technocrat and the only achievement of the respondent placed before the RO was a certificate issued to a firm for the completion of some projects and the same could not be considered as a national or