File photo of Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi. PHOTO: REUTERS
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended the notifications which declared Maulana Muhammad Ahmad Ludhianvi of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) as winning candidate from Jhang NA-89, Express News reported.
The Election Commission of Pakistan and an election tribunal had declared Ludhianvi the winner after Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Sheikh Muhammad Akram was disqualified for allegedly being a loan defaulter. The election tribunal had passed the order on a petition filed by Ludhianvi in which he had alleged that Akram was not an eligible candidate as he did not fulfil the condition of being “sadiq and ameen” (truthful and trustworthy).
A three-member bench - headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali - suspended both the notifications, saying that the tribunal had not given enough reasons for the disqualification. The bench said the tribunal's decision did not take into account the ground realities in the constituency and the number of votes each candidate received.
The bench issued notices to all the respondents and asked the tribunal to re-evaluate the situation and inform the court within three months.
Constituency
NA-89 has long been an ASWJ hub. In 1988, when it was known as Sipah-i-Sahaba, its founder Haq Nawaz Jhangvi won 39,000 votes in this constituency, but lost out to Begum Abida Hussain. However, he vowed that Abida Hussain would quit the constituency.
In 1990, Hussain contested the election from elsewhere, though Jhangvi had been killed by then. Maulana Isarul Qasmi won the NA-89 seat as well as the PP-77 Punjab Assembly seat in 1990, defeating the PML-N’s Sheikh Yusuf.
Qasmi too was killed, but the party remained in control of the constituency. Sipah-i-Sahaba’s Azam Tariq won both seats by a wide margin in 1993, the loser again being Yusuf. The PPP’s Nawab Amanullah Khan Sial won the seat in 1997, while Azam Tariq again won it in 2002. After Tariq was assassinated, Sheikh Waqas Akram won the seat in a by-election as a candidate of the PML-Q and retained it in the 2008 elections.
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Dear all Maulana Muhammad Ahmad Ludhianvi the G8 leader of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) is must for NA -89 becuz a large number of peopel like mulana
@Mansoor:
The religious sectarian extremists' leaders, who have a majority sect background, are specifically assassinated (as opposed to their flock being bombed or massacred), by rare (as compared to the more frequent majority militants regionally and globally) minority militants, because of their organized efforts of not just religious hate propaganda against minorities, but violent sectarian cleansing against the general minority sect population, which includes everything from hate literature, to target killings of the minority community's non-activist professionals to wholesale bombings of the minority's worshipping congregations.
This extremist, if not terrorist, group was banned previously under a different name, however currently the state has failed to move or arrest the current incarnation's leaders or militants. This is why their participation in these elections are so controversial.
A historical analogy would be a KKK political white supremacist leader being assassinated by vigilante Black Panthers in defense of their minority black community, in a prejudicial majority white state that failed to protect the minorities from mass attacks on their neighbourhoods by the KKK and other white racists alike.
"the tribunal had not given enough reasons for the disqualification." This is enough reason that they are lawless killers and lower courts have no protection from state.
Looks like ET is favouring ASWJ. They are not publishing comment that are going against them.
Not Sadiq and Amin versus murderer and fitna purwer. Your pick.
@Mansoor: Not sure what you are talking about but in general evil deeds do result in a bad ending.
@Mansoor: A few have been killed because aswj is terrorist group responsible for killing tens of thousands of pakistani civilians.
ET PRINT THIS WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS ON THE EXTREAMISTS SIDE
nO action by SC on petition of PTI on mass fraud in election, but to over-rule the decision of EC on 'one' seat that PML_N lost, SC was fast to act! wow.. now thats called biasness ki height!!
ECP should have disqualified PML-N candidate, declared the elections in this constituency null and void and ordered a by-election all together. Sighting Article 62 & 63 in this case, PML-N candidate in retrospect would have been ineligible to contest the elections in the first place. ECP basically validated that PML-N's candidate indeed contested an election after his credentials were authenticated by the returning officer.
I am sure that the Supreme Court would reinstate Sheikh Muhammad Akram as the representative of NA-89 or would order the ECP to hold fresh elections there.
Ban-Organization leader should not allow to enter our parliament...
The very fact that he was allowed to stand for elections was wrong.......good decision by the SC.
Mansoor, I would guess that when they get out of hand, their handlers terminate their services.
if these are sidelined in every walk of life then what should be their response. Media is not going to highlight this fact...
Very good Decision by SC.
When the Election tribunals made for the such disputes are not allowed to perform their duties freely due to the interference from courts, then is this system is meant to be paralyzed. Institutional harmony is just a joke here.
All the Courts in country are meant to favor N league as usual Not surprised.
ET: I know you not going to publish. cheers
Can someone enlighten me on why all the ASWJ candidates have been assassinated over the years?