Summary Hamid Khan wants the hearing of Khawaja Saad Rafique's appeal to be held on an earlier date
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Hamid khan has gone to Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan on Wednesday about the case of NA-125, reported Dunya News. Hamid Khan wants the hearing of Khawaja Saad Rafique’s appeal to be held on an earlier date. He submitted the application to shift the date of hearing on 2nd November.
It is worth mentioning that Election Tribunal (ET) Lahore gave a verdict in which the tribunal declared the election of 2013 in NA-125 as null and void and ordered a re-election. After the verdict of Election Tribunal, Pakistan Muslim League N (PML-N)’s leader Khawaja Saad Rafique filed an application against the verdict in the Supreme Court in which he stated that the rigging allegations could not be proved according to the verdict so re-election is against the constitution. He requested SC to suspend the verdict of ET. Supreme Court accepted the application of Khawaja Saad Rafique and suspended the verdict, stopping re-election.
Read more: SC suspends election tribunal s verdict in NA-125, PP-155 cases
Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) on Monday suspended the decision of Election Tribunal regarding NA-125 which disqualified Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique after irregularities were confirmed in polls held in the constituency in the May 2013 General Elections, Dunya News reported.
The court also suspended the decision of the tribunal related to PP-155 due to which Pakistan Muslim League s (PML-N s) Mian Naseer lost his seat.
According to details, the hearing was conducted by a three member bench headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali after which all the electoral records were summoned whereas Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was also barred to conduct by-poll in the constituency.
SC adjourned the hearing for four weeks and issued notices to ECP, PTI and other parties.
Moreover, Saad Rafique has also been restored on his post after the verdict of SC.
Earlier, election tribunal disqualified Khawaja Saad Rafique after irregularities were confirmed in NA-125 polls that were held in the constituency in the May 2013 general elections.
In its verdict, the tribunal declared NA-125 results null and void and ordered for conduct of re-polls in the constituency within next sixty days.
It may be mentioned here that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI’s) candidate Hamid Khan had challenged the victory of PML-N’s Saad Rafiq alleging that he rigged NA-125 polls.
Khawaja Saad Rafique later challenged the election tribunal’s verdict of NA-125 in SCP and a petition was filed by the counsel of Saad Rafique stating that PTI was unable to prove all the allegations leveled against Federal minister.
He said that election tribunal has annulled the election just because of election irregularities. He further claimed that election tribunal has not accused anybody of rigging which means that Saad Rafique was not involved in organized rigging.
Moreover, the petitioner demanded to void the election tribunal decision of re-election in NA-125.
