Eligibility challenge: LHC decider refuses to hear plea

LAHORE: Justice Shujaat Ali Khan of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday refused to hear a petition severe eligibility of Khawaja Ahmed Hassaan as a claimant for Lahore mayor’s office. Citing personal reasons, a decider referred a petition to a arch justice. Petitioner Waqas Aslam pronounced that Hassaan was not authorised to competition a choosing for mayor’s office. Through his warn Sheraz Zaka, a postulant pronounced that Hassaan was not authorised even to competition a choosing for kinship legislature chairman’s bureau since he was streamer a supervision entity during a time of internal legislature elections. He pronounced that a supervision functionary contingency have quiescent from his pursuit during slightest dual years before contesting any election, though Hassaan had quiescent from his open bureau after his choosing as kinship legislature chairman. He pronounced that Hassaan was not authorised to competition a choosing for kinship legislature chairman’s bureau therefore he should be unfit as kinship legislature authority and barred from contesting a choosing for Lahore mayor’s office.

Published in The Express Tribune, Aug 23rd, 2016.

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