Expired Cnic: JI leader’s nomination papers rejected

TIMERGARA: The application form of the Jamaat-e-Islami central vice president Sirajul Haq were rejected by the returning officer in Lower Dir on Thursday.

Haq’s CNIC had expired, a JI activist said. The JI leader along with activists had reached the office of the returning officer Civil Judge Akbar Ali to file the nomination papers on JI ticket from the PK-95 constituency.

However, on rejection of the application forms, Sirajul Haq left for Islamabad to renew his CNIC, the JI activist said.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 29^th, 2013.