Lahore High Court rejects former Punjab chief minister, son\u2019s appeals against rejection of nomination papers
\nLAHORE
\nThe Lahore High Court (LHC) has rejected Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Parvez Elahi\u2019s plea against the rejection of his nomination papers, however, his wife Qaisara was granted permission to contest the February 8 general elections from two constituencies.
\nA three-member bench headed by Justice Ali Baqar Najafi issued the verdict on pleas filed by the embattled party\u2019s president and his wife challenging the appellate tribunal\u2019s and returning officer\u2019s (RO) decisions.
\nThe high court upheld the verdicts given by the RO and appellate tribunal regarding the rejection of Elahi\u2019s nomination papers from NA-64 and PP-32.
\nAdditionally, the LHC full bench also rejected Moonis Elahi\u2019s appeal against the rejection of his nominations from NA-64, NA-69, PP-32, and PP-34.
\nHowever, Qaisara\u2019s nomination papers from NA-64 and PP-32 have been accepted for contesting the forthcoming general polls.
\nOn January 8, an election tribunal rejected Elahi and his wife\u2019s appeals against the rejection of their nomination papers from NA-59 and PP-23, upholding RO\u2019s decision of declaring them \u201cdisqualified\u201d for concealing asset details and other information.
\nA series of objections had been raised against them, which included the concealing of assets, non-disclosure of shares in different companies, Qaisara\u2019s foreign visit, non-compliance with the rule to open separate bank accounts for expenditures in both constituencies, technical mistakes in documents and submitting documents without verification from the oath commission.
\nThe senior PTI leader was initially arrested on June 1 in a Rs70 million graft case related to the embezzlement of development funds allocated for the Gujrat district and has been behind bars ever since.
\nHe was released several times in between, only to be re-arrested immediately in different cases, including a money laundering case and allegations of illegal appointments in the Punjab Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lahore High Court rejects former Punjab chief minister, son\u2019s appeals against rejection of nomination papers LAHORE The Lahore High Court (LHC) has rejected Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Parvez Elahi\u2019s plea against the rejection of his nomination papers, however, his wife Qaisara was granted permission to contest the February 8 general elections from two constituencies. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n