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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.
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The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday rejected a plea by the ruling PTI to stop the issuance of notification of PPP Senator-elect Yousuf Raza Gilani s victory in the recent elections for the upper house of parliament. AFP/File
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday accepted for hearing a petition by the ruling PTI seeking disqualification of PPP Senator-elect Yousuf Raza Gilani, while directing that the names of two PTI lawmakers also be included as respondents.
The ECP decided to issue notices to the former prime minister and his son Ali Haider Gilani over a video in which Ali was seen telling PTI MNAs how to make a vote in the Senate election invalid by over-writing and ticking in front of the names of all candidates on the ballot paper and purportedly offered money and development funds.
PPP leader and former PM Yousuf Raza Gilani speaks to the media alongside JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman outside the latter s residence. DawnNewsTV/File
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday accepted a PTI petition seeking early hearing of its plea for disqualification of senator-elect Yousuf Raza Gilani and fixed the case for Tuesday (today).
The decision came hours after PTI lawmakers Farrukh Habib, Maleeka Bokhari and Kanwal Shauzab in their petition asked the ECP not to issue a notification of Mr Gilani’s victory in the recently held Senate polls and sought early hearing of the case which was earlier scheduled for March 11 a day before the election for the coveted slot of Senate chairman.
ECP seeks evidence of vote sale in Senate elections from PTI MPA
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ECP has asked for evidence of the sale and purchase of votes in the recent Senate polls.
KP Assembly Member Abdul Salam had earlier claimed that he had been approached for selling his vote during Senate polls.
The lawmaker says the ECP had asked him to immediately hand them over the evidence.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked for evidence of the sale and purchase of votes in the recent Senate polls,
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly Member of PTI, Abdul Salam, had earlier claimed that during the Senate elections, he had been approached for selling his vote and he could also produce evidence in this regard.