{"id":28627,"date":"2018-07-20T05:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T19:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=28627"},"modified":"2018-07-20T05:26:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T19:26:14","slug":"supreme-court-dismisses-petition-challenging-sheikh-waqass-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/supreme-court-dismisses-petition-challenging-sheikh-waqass-candidacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court dismisses petition challenging Sheikh Waqas\u2019s candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clean chit<br \/>\nNEWS DESK<br \/>\nISLAMABAD<br \/>\nThe Supreme Court allowed on Thursday Jhang\u2019s NA-115 election candidate Sheikh Waqas Akram to contest the July 25 general election.<br \/>\nAkram\u2019s candidacy had been challenged by a voter of the constituency, Mohammad Imran.<br \/>\nHowever, the election tribunal and then the Lahore High Court had both ruled in Akram\u2019s favour following which the petitioner had approached the Supreme Court.<br \/>\nDuring today\u2019s hearing, Justice Ijazul Ahsan observed that Akram\u2019s nomination papers do not contain any false declarations.<br \/>\nSimilarly, Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed observed that there is no court declaration against the candidate\u2019s college degree.<br \/>\nThe court then dismissed Imran\u2019s petition and upheld the Lahore High Court\u2019s decision on the matter.<br \/>\nImran had pleaded the relevant forums stating that the returning officer had rejected the nomination papers of Akram on the basis of fake academic credentials and concealment of assets.<br \/>\nIn the 2015 general election, Akram, chief of banned Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi and former senator Syeda Sughra Imam are contesting as independent candidates whereas Ghulam Bibi Bharwana will contest the polls on a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ticket.<br \/>\nAkram is a former MNA from Jhang and has also remained a former federal minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean chit NEWS DESK ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court allowed on Thursday Jhang\u2019s NA-115 election candidate Sheikh Waqas Akram to contest the July 25 general election. Akram\u2019s candidacy had been challenged by a voter of the constituency, Mohammad Imran. However, the election tribunal and then the Lahore High Court had both ruled in Akram\u2019s favour following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Supreme Court dismisses petition challenging Sheikh Waqas\u2019s candidacy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/supreme-court-dismisses-petition-challenging-sheikh-waqass-candidacy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court dismisses petition challenging Sheikh Waqas\u2019s candidacy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Clean chit NEWS DESK ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court allowed on Thursday Jhang\u2019s NA-115 election candidate Sheikh Waqas Akram to contest the July 25 general election. 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