Hours before Senate polls: PTI loses a vote in K-P
Lawmaker from Shangla de-seated by top poll body for dishonesty
PTI loses vote in K-P PHOTO: ATHAR KHAN/EXPRESS
PESHAWAR:
With just hours to go for the Senate polls, the ruling party suffered a blow after an MPA was de-seated by the top poll body for dishonesty.
The PTI has lost a vote in the Senate elections which are scheduled to be held on March 3. A notification for de-seating Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA from Shangla Abdul Munim Khan was issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan on Thursday.
The de-seating could impact the chances of PTI candidates bagging a slot in the upper house of Parliament.
In the notification, the commission revived a notification it had issued last April disqualifying Munim as a member of the K-P assembly.
Munim had contested ECP’s decision and had managed to obtain a stay order on the notification. But he was dealt a blow last week when the apex court upheld the ECP’s notification.
Munim had been elected as a member of the K-P assembly in the 2013 general elections from PK-88 Shangla after beating Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) candidate Sher Alam.
Alam had subsequently filed a reference in the ECP, asking the poll body to disqualify Munim for being dishonest and concealing facts from the ECP while contesting the general elections — a violation of Article 62 and 63.
According to Alam, before contesting the elections, Munim was a school teacher in the Kohistan area. He drew his March 2013 salary from the school and a month later he contested the elections in May. Alam contended that a government servant can only contest elections two years after leaving the job.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 2nd, 2018.
With just hours to go for the Senate polls, the ruling party suffered a blow after an MPA was de-seated by the top poll body for dishonesty.
The PTI has lost a vote in the Senate elections which are scheduled to be held on March 3. A notification for de-seating Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA from Shangla Abdul Munim Khan was issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan on Thursday.
The de-seating could impact the chances of PTI candidates bagging a slot in the upper house of Parliament.
In the notification, the commission revived a notification it had issued last April disqualifying Munim as a member of the K-P assembly.
Munim had contested ECP’s decision and had managed to obtain a stay order on the notification. But he was dealt a blow last week when the apex court upheld the ECP’s notification.
Munim had been elected as a member of the K-P assembly in the 2013 general elections from PK-88 Shangla after beating Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) candidate Sher Alam.
Alam had subsequently filed a reference in the ECP, asking the poll body to disqualify Munim for being dishonest and concealing facts from the ECP while contesting the general elections — a violation of Article 62 and 63.
According to Alam, before contesting the elections, Munim was a school teacher in the Kohistan area. He drew his March 2013 salary from the school and a month later he contested the elections in May. Alam contended that a government servant can only contest elections two years after leaving the job.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 2nd, 2018.