Top election body has directed Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar, son-in-law of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to respond to charges of concealing assets of his wife by June 15.
Headed by chief election commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd) Sardar Raza a four member panel of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday conducted preliminary hearing of a petition filed by the rival candidate of Safdar.
Nawabzada Salahuddin Aziz, a PTI ticket holder who lost to Safdar in 2013 general elections from Manshera, filed a petition with the ECP against Safdar last month through his counsel Chaudhry Faisal.
Salahuddin claims that Safdar has not mentioned the properties his wife Maryum Nawaz owns outside the country.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2016.
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