Recount Case: SC refers Waziristan poll case to ECP
Ghalib Khan succeeds after challenging the election results.
ISLAMABAD:
The Supreme Court referred on Wednesday the issue of election on NA-41 Wana (Tribal Areas-VI) in South Waziristan to the Election Commission of Pakistan. A three-judge bench had taken up the case.
Ghalib Khan, a candidate, who lost the polls, in South Waziristan, challenged the election results in which Maulana Abdul Maalik Wazir was declared as the winner. The petitioner had contended that as a result of recounting in certain polling stations, he had won the election but Maulana Maalik had filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court in 2008 which passed a verdict in his favour. The Islamabad High Court had declared Maulana Abdul Malik as elected from NA-41 Wana in the general elections and set aside the decision of the chief election commissioner.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 16th, 2011.
The Supreme Court referred on Wednesday the issue of election on NA-41 Wana (Tribal Areas-VI) in South Waziristan to the Election Commission of Pakistan. A three-judge bench had taken up the case.
Ghalib Khan, a candidate, who lost the polls, in South Waziristan, challenged the election results in which Maulana Abdul Maalik Wazir was declared as the winner. The petitioner had contended that as a result of recounting in certain polling stations, he had won the election but Maulana Maalik had filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court in 2008 which passed a verdict in his favour. The Islamabad High Court had declared Maulana Abdul Malik as elected from NA-41 Wana in the general elections and set aside the decision of the chief election commissioner.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 16th, 2011.