KARACHI, Oct 2 (TNS):Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday challenged Election Bill-2017 in the Sindh High Court (SHC).
The Bill allows an unqualified person to be the head of a political party. Both the political parties, in their petition, requested the court to declare the bill as illegal and unconstitutional.
The submitted petition stated that the Election Bill-2017 is violation of the constitutional provisions and was specifically aimed to elect former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as the head of Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) despite his lifelong disqualification by the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers.
Meanwhile, Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the PML (N) at its meeting in Islamabad on Monday passed a resolution reposing full confidence in the leadership of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The resolution, moved by Senator Mushahidullah, appreciated the four year performance of Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister of the country.
Earlier, the Senate had passed the Election Bill, 2017 on Sept 22 with a majority vote, doing away with a clause which barred a person from serving as an office-bearer of a political party if he/she was either not qualified to be, or disqualified from being elected as a member of a parliament under Article 63 of the Constitution.
