Punjab

Police register cases against PML-N leaders for flouting election rules in Faisalabad

Cases were registered for disrupting law and order on eve of the local government elections; ECP takes notice

Our Correspondent/shamsul Islam October 30, 2015

Former mayor Chaudhry Sher Ali. PHOTO: EXPRESS

FAISALABAD/ ISLAMABAD: Faisalabad police registered on Friday cases against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Chaudhry Sher Ali and three other party members for violating the code of conduct set for the local government elections.

Cases were registered on charges of disrupting law and order and use of speakers during a workers convention in Dhobi Ghatt area on Thursday night.

Sher Ali is a former mayor of Faisalabad and father of State Minister Abid Sher Ali.

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Others who were booked include PML-N’ MPA Mian Tahir Jameel, former MPA Khawaja Muhammad Islam and Chaudhary Shafiq Ahmad Gujjar .

Police, however, have not made any arrest as yet.

Phase I of the local government elections in Sindh and Punjab are scheduled for Saturday.

ECP takes notices

Meanwhile, the Election Commission of Pakistan took notice of the violations committed and asked minister Abid Sher Ali, his father, as well as district’s returning and coordination officers to appear before the commission on October 3 and furnish an explanation.

The ECP has also deferred local government polls in some wards of Union Councils in Gujrat and Faisalabad districts over the aforementioned violations.

COMMENTS (2)

Muneer | 9 years ago | Reply Mere eye wash.Nothing will happen.

Naeem Khan | 9 years ago | Reply Why any one is surprised on their conduct. The elite in Pakistan are above the laws of the land and some of them has gotten away with murders. The laws are made only for the common and down trodden citizens of Pakistan. I blame the people, why do they vote for people like these in the first place. If the constituents will reject them for ignoring and floating the laws and rules, they will take notice. Above all it is time to revamp the whole electoral system, 2 years tenure for the national and provincial assemblies, 3 years for the Senators, President and Senator must be elected directly by the people. One would see different kind of politicians if these reforms are made because they would know that they will be out of office after 2 or 3 years. 5 years of tenure is a long time and people have short memories and these crooked politicians realize that and get away with all kind of shenanigans.

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