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* Sattar Lalika, Nasrullah Dareshak, Pervez Nakai, Khwaja Asif, Ghazanfar Gul allowed to run for elections
Staff Report
LAHORE: Election appellate tribunals of the Lahore High Court on Friday barred Nawabzada Mansoor Ali, Talib Nakai and Mahar Saeed Padhiar from contesting the October elections.
The tribunal rejected the appeal of former Punjab minister Nawabzada Mansoor Ali, son of veteran politician Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, by declaring his graduation degree bogus.
Friday was the last date for the election appellate tribunals to decide all appeals filed against the acceptance or rejection of nomination papers.
Nawabzada Mansoor had challenged the rejection of his nomination papers by a returning officer who had declared his degree fake.
The tribunal allowed former federal minister Abdul Sattar Lalika, to contest elections.
Earlier, the papers of Mr Lalika were rejected when the University Grant Commission (UGC) did not approve his business administration degree obtained from Canada.
Mr Lalika pleaded that he met the requirement of holding a bachelors degree.
The tribunal also allowed former provincial minister Sardar Nasrullah Dareshak to contest elections.
The tribunal observed that applicant Sardar Khalid Bashir Mazari had the right to move a petition before the full bench of the Lahore High Court.
Applicant’s claim was that Mr Dareshak had not disclosed the details of his assets in his nomination papers.
The tribunal accepted an appeal filed by Pervez Nakai, son of former Punjab chief minister Arif Nakai against Sardar Talib Nakai.
The applicant had alleged that Talib Nakai was a defaulter of Rs 4.7 billion.
The election appellate tribunal allowed Pervez Nakai to contest elections in another appeal against the acceptance of his nomination papers.
Advocate Rana Muhammad Hayat had filed an appeal against the acceptance of Mr Pervez Nakai’s nomination papers, accusing him of misappropriating Rs 80,000 of his client. He had said an inquiry against Mr Pervez was pending before the Punjab Bar Council.
The tribunal allowed Khawaja Asif from Sialkot to contest elections if he produced a receipt for depositing Rs 1.25 million before the court.
Shahzad Khan had accused him of default in payment of a personal guarantees that he had submitted to let a firm obtain a bank loan.
The firm had defaulted on the loan and Mr Asif was required to pay Rs 7.5 million to the bank being the loan’s guarantor.
The court rejected the appeal of Sardar Arif Rashid and allowed Maj (r) Habibullah to contest elections while accepting his graduation degree as genuine.
The court disqualified Faiz Ahmed Chatta from contesting elections on the appeal of the Election Commission of Pakistan, which had challenged the genuineness of the candidate’s graduation degree.
The court also allowed Nawazada Ghazanfar Gul to contest elections from Gujrat while holding that the appellant had failed to prove his allegations against Mr Gul.
Appellant Muhammad Sarwar had alleged that he was an absconder in a case regarding disturbance of public order.
Mahar Saeed Padhiar, former provincial minister, was disallowed from contesting elections when the tribunal accepted an appeal against the acceptance of his nomination papers that accused him of being a defaulter of bank loans worth Rs 7.7 million.
The appellant had also accused him of involvement in many criminal cases including that of water theft
