F.P. Report
QUETTA: An election tribunal granted permission to BNP chief Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal to contest election, on Thursday.
Akhtar Mengal had filed appeal in the appellate tribunal challenging the Returning Officer’s rejection of his nomination papers for National Assembly constituency NA-264 (Quetta-I).
Justice Hashim Kakar presiding over the tribunal heard the case.
The RO had rejected nomination papers of Akhtar Mengal over his Aqama (work permit) of Dubai.
The Balochistan election tribunal also granted permission to several other candidates to contest the upcoming general elections, whose nomination papers were initially rejected by returning officers.
Balochistan High Court judges Justice Muhammad Hashim Khan Kakar and Justice Amir Nawaz Rana reviewed and decided the appeals.
Appellate tribunal permitted Abdul Khaliq Hazara (Chairman of Hazara Democratic Party), Tahir Mehmood Khan (PPP), Ahmed Nawaz Baloch (BNP), Mehmood Khan Sherani, Mufti Gulab (JUI-F), Zakir Hussain Kasi and Muhammad Hussain to contest elections.
SEOUL (AFP) : North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered to give up his nuclear…
MOSCOW (AFP) : Russia on Tuesday said the United States was seeking to place weapons…
PARIS (AFP) : The first trial in France of officials of the Syrian regime of…
NEW DELHI (AFP) : Indian authorities in the capital have ordered schools shut early for…
KALAMATA (AP) : Nine Egyptian men go on trial in southern Greece on Tuesday, accused…
MOSCOW (Reuters): President Vladimir Putin on Monday appointed former deputy economy minister Oleg Savelyev as…
This website uses cookies.