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The Lahore High Court chief justice on Friday disqualified PML-N Member Punjab Assembly Rana Asif over dual nationality.
Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial also directed the Election Commission of Pakistan to de-notify Rana Asif immediately. The chief justice issued the order while accepting a petition moved by Faisal Ilyas Sadiq seeking disqualification of Rana Asif.
Asif was elected MPA in the 2008 general elections against a seat reserved for minorities. He was appointed provincial finance minister this year but had to resign over dual nationality in June, two days before presentation of the provincial budget. The chief justice on August 3 had suspended his assembly membership.
As proceedings started on Friday, deputy attorney general Naveed Innyat Malik told the court that the petitioner was not an aggrieved party and the court could disqualify a person on an application of the ECP only. He prayed the court to dismiss the petition.
Disagreeing with his arguments, the chief justice disqualified the MPA and asked the ECP to issue a notification. The petitioner counsel Saiful Mulook had submitted that the apex court had already disqualified parliamentarians for dual nationality. Therefore, the assembly membership of the respondent MPA being a Canadian national should also be suspended and he be declared disqualified, he added. He said Rana Asif was a Canadian national and according to Article 63(1) C he could not hold the assembly seat.
Rana Asif’s counsel had pleaded that the MPA was not a Canada citizen but enjoyed a status of national. He said the constitutional bar of dual nationality did not apply to his client. Saif-ul-Malook said Rana Asif held an overseas identity card which was issued only to Pakistanis who held a passport of some other country. He produced the copy of Rana’s oversees ID card before the court.
The petitioner said Rana Asif was a businessman of Canada but was elected an MPA by posing himself as a Christian. He said some of his opponents in search of documents to prove that he was a Canadian national found his identity card showing him a Muslim. He said they had found his identity card for overseas Pakistanis which showed him a Muslim. He said the card was issued to him in 2009.
adjourned: Additional District and Sessions Judge Nisar Ahmed on Friday adjourned the hearing of doctors’ case allegedly involved in committing a criminal negligence of removing a drip of an infant baby which caused his death just to join the YDA strike after doctors withdrew their bail applications.
Doctors contended in their bail applications that they were implicated in forged case merely to humiliate. They contended before the court that the crackdown against doctors was nothing but a political victimisation.
They submitted that kid Fahad died in Mayo Hospital’s Emergency while the handcuffed doctors were neither in that Emergency nor were present there.
The Lahore High Court chief justice on Friday disqualified PML-N Member Punjab Assembly Rana Asif over dual nationality.
Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial also directed the Election Commission of Pakistan to de-notify Rana Asif immediately. The chief justice issued the order while accepting a petition moved by Faisal Ilyas Sadiq seeking disqualification of Rana Asif.
Asif was elected MPA in the 2008 general elections against a seat reserved for minorities. He was appointed provincial finance minister this year but had to resign over dual nationality in June, two days before presentation of the provincial budget. The chief justice on August 3 had suspended his assembly membership.
As proceedings started on Friday, deputy attorney general Naveed Innyat Malik told the court that the petitioner was not an aggrieved party and the court could disqualify a person on an application of the ECP only. He prayed the court to dismiss the petition.
Disagreeing with his arguments, the chief justice disqualified the MPA and asked the ECP to issue a notification. The petitioner counsel Saiful Mulook had submitted that the apex court had already disqualified parliamentarians for dual nationality. Therefore, the assembly membership of the respondent MPA being a Canadian national should also be suspended and he be declared disqualified, he added. He said Rana Asif was a Canadian national and according to Article 63(1) C he could not hold the assembly seat.
Rana Asif’s counsel had pleaded that the MPA was not a Canada citizen but enjoyed a status of national. He said the constitutional bar of dual nationality did not apply to his client. Saif-ul-Malook said Rana Asif held an overseas identity card which was issued only to Pakistanis who held a passport of some other country. He produced the copy of Rana’s oversees ID card before the court.
The petitioner said Rana Asif was a businessman of Canada but was elected an MPA by posing himself as a Christian. He said some of his opponents in search of documents to prove that he was a Canadian national found his identity card showing him a Muslim. He said they had found his identity card for overseas Pakistanis which showed him a Muslim. He said the card was issued to him in 2009.
adjourned: Additional District and Sessions Judge Nisar Ahmed on Friday adjourned the hearing of doctors’ case allegedly involved in committing a criminal negligence of removing a drip of an infant baby which caused his death just to join the YDA strike after doctors withdrew their bail applications.
Doctors contended in their bail applications that they were implicated in forged case merely to humiliate. They contended before the court that the crackdown against doctors was nothing but a political victimisation.
They submitted that kid Fahad died in Mayo Hospital’s Emergency while the handcuffed doctors were neither in that Emergency nor were present there.
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