Lucman, who filed the petition on Friday through Barrister Ali Zafar, has also argued that the Election Commission of Pakistan has held 29 by-elections on incomplete voter lists, contrary to the Supreme Court’s ruling, therefore these MPs are not qualified to be members of the National and provincial assemblies.
The petition states that 70 members of the National Assembly and provincial assemblies, who will be voting in the March 2 polls, hold counterfeit degrees and pleads that Senate elections should not be held until the fate of these 100 members is not decided. However, Zafar told The Express Tribune, they will withdraw the case if the 20th constitutional amendment is passed.
“Under the constitution, senators are to be elected through votes of members of the National and provincial assemblies. However, many sitting parliamentarians do not hold valid degrees and are hence disqualified [from voting],” he said.
Further, he said, 29 parliamentarians were elected through by-elections held using incomplete and invalid electoral lists and under an “election commission” which was not duly constituted under the law. Therefore, these by-elections are void, he said.
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Wholeheartedly support him. In fact the entire Assembly should be dissolved. No Locus Standi on the basis of bogus Electoral List.
He was minister in the care taker government that held the elections. Wow!
All those people who are trying to derail democracy should be tried for TREASON
Shame to Mubashar Lucman. His this petition seems another attempt from so-called "Establishment" to de-stabilize the system.
also PCO judges should resighn as they were reinstated by this corupt parliament and prime minister Mr mubashir probably knows that same parties will return to power in slightly changed proportions
There is no future of the Assemblies as well as of the Senate in Pakistan in view of the increasing inflation in the country.
People are not interested in such type of democracy where an ordinary citizen cannot live honourably.
Scrap the whole system and implement a Presidential form of government as was in the sixties, the most stable and prosperous period of our history.
@Hafiz Shah Ali: Dissolve the whole set up created under the illegal and immoral NRO dictated by Crusader-in-Chief GW Bush
Yes.I fully support it.Delay the Senate elections. For once we as nation should come clean and have members of parliment who have been elected on valid voters list This assembly consists of large number of parliament with bogus degrees and have been elected on large number of bogus votes. There will be doubtful legitimisy in Senators elected by them