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Musharraf's nomination papers rejected
Friday April 05, 2013 06:15:34 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad:
The nomination papers of Pakistan's former president General (retd)
Pervez Musharraf for the upcoming general elections were rejected
Friday from Kasur, one of the four parliamentary constituencies he
is seeking to contest from.
Advocate Javed Kasuri had raised objections over Musharraf's
candidacy, citing Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution that lay
down rules for qualification and disqualification for contestants
for the Majlis-e-Shoora (parliament), Dawn reported.
Accepting the objections, the returning officer rejected the
nomination papers.
Musharraf filed papers to contest elections from four
parliamentary seats -- Karachi, Islamabad, Chitral and Kasur.
Located adjacent to the India-Pakistan border, the city of Kasur
is 55 km from Lahore and is one of the oldest cities of the
country.
Meanwhile, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has also
sought Musharraf's disqualification by the Election Commission,
citing his ineligibility due to alleged involvement in four cases.
These are:
-- the Akbar Bugti killing case relating to murder of the Baloch
tribal head Aug 26, 2006.
-- the Lal Masjid case relating to the July 3, 2007 ordering by
Musharraf of a military operation against the mosque for
challenging the writ of the state. The military besieged the
mosque for 12 days before assaulting the compound, an attack in
which hundreds of students were killed.
-- the Benazir Bhutto killing case relating to the former prime
minister's assassination in Rawalpindi in December 2007.
-- the missing people's case relating to those who had been
secretly detained by the intelligence agencies during Musharraf's
regime and are still untraced.
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