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The Lahore High Court on Friday deferred the hearing of a petition of the Jamaat-i-Islami challenging political office of President Asif Ali Zardari and seeking his disqualification in the light of the Supreme Court judgment in the Asghar Khan case.
Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh heard arguments of the petitioner’s counsel on the maintainability of the petition and asked him to convince the court on a point that how the President could be disqualified under Article 63 of the Constitution and the Asghar Khan case verdict if he (President) was not eligible at the time of filing his nomination papers for election.
The judge adjourned the hearing until December 5. Earlier, Advocate AK Dogar in his arguments said the president from day one had been persistently carrying on political activities as the head of state as well as head of a political party.
He said a full bench of the LHC, on May 12, 2011, had directed the president to disassociate himself from the office of the political party at the earliest but he had been consistently committing disobedience of the order as well as of the Constitution.
The counsel urged the court to declare that the respondent (Zardari) as head of a political party was not qualified at the time of his nomination for election.
The Lahore High Court on Friday deferred the hearing of a petition of the Jamaat-i-Islami challenging political office of President Asif Ali Zardari and seeking his disqualification in the light of the Supreme Court judgment in the Asghar Khan case.
Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh heard arguments of the petitioner’s counsel on the maintainability of the petition and asked him to convince the court on a point that how the President could be disqualified under Article 63 of the Constitution and the Asghar Khan case verdict if he (President) was not eligible at the time of filing his nomination papers for election.
The judge adjourned the hearing until December 5. Earlier, Advocate AK Dogar in his arguments said the president from day one had been persistently carrying on political activities as the head of state as well as head of a political party.
He said a full bench of the LHC, on May 12, 2011, had directed the president to disassociate himself from the office of the political party at the earliest but he had been consistently committing disobedience of the order as well as of the Constitution.
The counsel urged the court to declare that the respondent (Zardari) as head of a political party was not qualified at the time of his nomination for election.
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