For verifying facts: Capt Safdar’s nomination papers, returns sought
NA-21 PTI candidate asks ECP to provide attested copies of asset documents
Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
A political opponent of MNA Captain Mohammad Safdar has asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to disclose the lawmaker’s nomination papers and annual returns filed, suggesting that he had concealed his assets.
The request was made by Nawabzada Salahuddin Saeed, who had contested unsuccessfully in NA-21 Mansehra against Capt Safdar in May 2013 general elections on a PTI ticket. Saeed only managed 25,615 votes against Safdar’s 91,013.
Capt Safdar is the son-in-law of PM Nawaz Sharif and husband of Maryam Nawaz. Maryam, along with her two brothers Hassan and Hussain, were named in the Panama leaks.
“It has been revealed that Capt Mohammad Safdar concealed material facts in his nomination papers and deliberately concealed the details of the assets duly owned by his family, i.e., his spouse,” claimed Saeed in a letter written to the secretary of the ECP on Wednesday.
The letter, dispatched through Saeed’s lawyer Faisal Hussain Chaudhry, further claims that by concealing details of assets, Capt Safdar allegedly violates mandatory provisions in the Representation of Peoples Act which require full disclosure.
Emphasising that it was the ECP’s responsibility to hold fair and transparent elections and apply relevant laws, Saeed asked the ECP to provide attested copies of Capt Safdar’s nomination papers and annual returns as submitted before the commission till date adding that he was willing to pay any fee required.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 12th, 2016.
A political opponent of MNA Captain Mohammad Safdar has asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to disclose the lawmaker’s nomination papers and annual returns filed, suggesting that he had concealed his assets.
The request was made by Nawabzada Salahuddin Saeed, who had contested unsuccessfully in NA-21 Mansehra against Capt Safdar in May 2013 general elections on a PTI ticket. Saeed only managed 25,615 votes against Safdar’s 91,013.
Capt Safdar is the son-in-law of PM Nawaz Sharif and husband of Maryam Nawaz. Maryam, along with her two brothers Hassan and Hussain, were named in the Panama leaks.
“It has been revealed that Capt Mohammad Safdar concealed material facts in his nomination papers and deliberately concealed the details of the assets duly owned by his family, i.e., his spouse,” claimed Saeed in a letter written to the secretary of the ECP on Wednesday.
The letter, dispatched through Saeed’s lawyer Faisal Hussain Chaudhry, further claims that by concealing details of assets, Capt Safdar allegedly violates mandatory provisions in the Representation of Peoples Act which require full disclosure.
Emphasising that it was the ECP’s responsibility to hold fair and transparent elections and apply relevant laws, Saeed asked the ECP to provide attested copies of Capt Safdar’s nomination papers and annual returns as submitted before the commission till date adding that he was willing to pay any fee required.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 12th, 2016.