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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Thursday admitted a petition challenging the nomination of two PML-N candidates for senate seats.
PTI has argued that the two contestants, Zafar Iqbal Jhagra and Raheela Magsi, are from Khyber-Pakhtunkwa and Sindh respectively and cannot contest the Senate election for Islamabad.
A two-member bench comprising, Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Aamir Farooq, admitted the petition for regular hearing and removed an objection raised by the register office.
The petitioner’s counsel, Barrister Shoaib Razak, maintained that the contestants were not residents of federal capital and requested the court to cancel their nomination papers.
He argued that Jhagra and Magsi had lost in the general elections from their own constituencies, after which the PML-N gave them Senate tickets from the capital.
Razak added that the PPP had also raised an objection after the PML-N awarded a ticket to Magsi, but the ECP ignored it, after which the PTI approached the court.
Elections for 52 of the Senate’s 104 seats will be held on March 5.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 27th, 2015.
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