LHC disqualifies MPA from Bahawalnagar
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Daily Times, Pakistan
Thursday, June 11, 2009
LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) consisting of Justice Anwarul Haq and Justice Abdul Sattar Goraya on Monday disqualified Rauf Khalid, an independently-elected MPA from Punjab Assembly constituency PP-284 (Bahawalnagar).
The bench directed the Election Commission of Pakistan to reprocess elections in the constituency in accordance with the law. The bench held the MPA disqualified after accepting petitions of Muhammad Ijazul Haq, the former minister for religions affairs and Nasarullah Khan, a voter from the same constituency. Ijaz, a PML-N candidate, had lost the election against Khalid, who had received 26,888 votes while Ijaz had been the runner-up, with 24,232 votes.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) consisting of Justice Anwarul Haq and Justice Abdul Sattar Goraya on Monday disqualified Rauf Khalid, an independently-elected MPA from Punjab Assembly constituency PP-284 (Bahawalnagar).
The bench directed the Election Commission of Pakistan to reprocess elections in the constituency in accordance with the law. The bench held the MPA disqualified after accepting petitions of Muhammad Ijazul Haq, the former minister for religions affairs and Nasarullah Khan, a voter from the same constituency. Ijaz, a PML-N candidate, had lost the election against Khalid, who had received 26,888 votes while Ijaz had been the runner-up, with 24,232 votes.
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