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| Thursday, January 23, 2003 |    |
Disqualify Talib Nakai, demands PML-N
Staff Report
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Punjab President Sardar Zulfiqar Khan Khosa on Wednesday demanded the Election Commission disqualify the newly elected PML-QA MNA from NA 142 on charges of loan default and stealing ballot papers from a polling station on the election day. Addressing a press conference at a local hotel, he said Talib Nakai was not eligible to contest election as he defaulted on a Rs 470 million loan drawn from a financial institution. Mr Khosa alleged that the PML-QA employed government machinery to defeat the PML-N candidate. He accused Mr Nakai of steeling around 800 ballot papers from a polling station. He said in order to please the chief minister, the police did not put Nakai’s name in the FIR. He launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission for what he called its failure to take action against Mr Nakai. “The EC turned a blind eye to the documentary proof against Mr Nakai,” he said. PML-N loosing candidate from NA-142 Rana Muhammad Hayyat accused the Kasur nazim and police officials of using state machinery in favour of Mr Nakai. PML-N candidate from PP-147 Syed Zahim Hussain Qadri alleged that PML-QA wanted to win election by hook or by crook and police, adding police and other officials were helping the PMlL-QA to achieve that objective. Rally today LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) will hold a rally on Thursday in protest against the alleged rigging of by elections by the government and possible US attack on Iraq. Muslim League (Nawaz) Punjab General Secretary Khwaja Saad Rafique said the rally would be held on Nicholson Road under the banner of Alliance for Restoration for Democracy. —Staff Report | |
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