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| SC declares Fazl's brother MNA from Tank |
| 2008-05-20 |
| A three-member Supreme Court (SC) bench on Monday declared Maulana Attaur Rehman of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) a member of the National Assembly (MNA) from NA-25, Tank. The bench consisted of Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, Justice Ijazul Hassan and Justice Chaudhry Ejaz Yousaf. Rehman is Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader Maulana Fazlur RehmanÂ’s younger brother. On May 15, the bench had reserved its verdict on his plea against a Peshawar High Court (PHC) decision on recounting of votes at various polling stations of the constituency. The bench had earlier not stayed the recounting slated for March 18 but had asked Election Commission (EC) not to officially notify election results till the disposal of the case. Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, counsel for Rehman, argued that the EC was not competent to order recounting of votes after issuance of results to all the candidates on the prescribed form. Wasim Sajjad, counsel for Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) candidate from NA-25 Habibullah Kundi, submitted that the EC had not received the election result on the prescribed time, which had made the election doubtful. He said a delay in announcing the election result was a violation of Section 39 of Representation of People Act, 1976. Sardar Latif Khan Khosa, counsel for Dabar Khan, a PPP candidate from NA-25, requested re-polling in the constituency, saying the consolidation process had not yet occurred in the constituency. He said the polling officers signed results of only 22 of the 257 polling stations. He said ballot papers were scattered and the National Assembly ballot papers were polled in the boxes fixed for provincial assembly ballots. |
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