Ishaq Dar. PHOTO: FILE
The petition, moved by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) candidate Nawazish Pirzada, requests the top court to suspend the LHC order.
Ishaq Dar challenges rejection of nomination papers for Senate elections
On February 17, an appellate election tribunal of the LHC granted Dar permission to contest Senate election, setting aside an order of the returning officer (RO) who had rejected his nomination papers.
On March 3, the former finance minister won a Senate seat as a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) backed independent candidate.
The petition contends that an absconder cannot contest elections.
"The apex court has categorically declared that a fugitive from law loses his normal rights granted under the substantive as well as procedural laws," reads the petition.
"The impugned order may very kindly be set-aside, resultantly the nomination papers of the respondent no. 4 from the seat of Technocrat, province of Punjab, Senate Elections 2018, may very kindly be rejected and election of the respondent no. 4 may be declared void and set aside," the petition reads further.
Previously, the Election Commission of Pakistan had rejected Dar’s nomination papers for being a court absconder in a corruption and money-laundering reference pending against him in an accountability court.
LHC dismisses petition seeking to disbar Ishaq Dar from Senate elections
Dar had also submitted his papers for two different Senate election categories with a single bank account. The unattested copies of his CNIC attached with his papers were also a reason for the rejection of his papers.
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