{"id":319926,"date":"2023-03-17T08:12:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T03:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=319926"},"modified":"2023-03-17T08:12:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T03:12:55","slug":"sc-dismisses-case-against-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/sc-dismisses-case-against-president\/","title":{"rendered":"SC dismisses case against President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>challenging the eligibility<br \/>\n ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nThe Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan on Thursday dismissed a case challenging the eligibility of President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi under Article 62 (1)(f) of the Constitution. A two judge bench headed by Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan announced the verdict on a petition filed by a citizen Zahoor Mehdi. Justice Ahsan remarked that there was no signature of proposer and seconder on the nomination papers of the petitioner.  As per the Constitution, the proposer and seconder of a candidate for the office of the President must be members of the Parliament.<br \/>\nJustice Ahsan remarked that what the conflicts between the political parties was not the matter of the petitioner.<br \/>\nThe petitioner adopted the stance in his plea that scrutiny of his nomination papers was not done correctly. He said that Mr. Arif Alvi was accused in a case at the time of presidential elections. He said Arif Alvi didn\u2019t meet the eligibility criteria for the office of the President.<br \/>\nThe petitioner said that his nomination papers were rejected due to lack of signatures of proposer and seconder. The top court subsequently dismissed the case. \u2014 DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>challenging the eligibility ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan on Thursday dismissed a case challenging the eligibility of President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi under Article 62 (1)(f) of the Constitution. 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Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC dismisses case against President<\/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\/sc-dismisses-case-against-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SC dismisses case against President\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"challenging the eligibility ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan on Thursday dismissed a case challenging the eligibility of President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi under Article 62 (1)(f) of the Constitution. 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