Islamabad, June 19 (TNS): In a major development, the nomination papers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s (MQM-P) Dr Farooq Sattar as well as All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) chief Pervez Musharraf were rejected on Tuesday by returning officers (ROs), local media reported.
Meanwhile, nomination papers of PTI chief Imran Khan, PPP supremo Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, and PML-N’s Hamza Shahbaz and Maryam Nawaz following scrutiny have been accepted.
The detailed orders are awaited as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) concludes the scrutiny of nomination papers on Tuesday.
Dr Sattar had filed nomination papers to contest elections on NA-245 constituency in Karachi. The returning officer for NA-245, Ahsan Khan, rejected Sattar’s nomination papers on the grounds that he is a declared absconder in two cases.
The official, in his decision, mentioned that Dr Sattar concealed the two cases and his status as an absconder. Dr Sattar has been declared an absconder in two cases pertaining to the violation of loudspeaker laws under Section 144.
