PTI losing candidates seek certified copy of election petition

PESHAWAR: A lawyer representing a losing candidate on Monday requested the election tribunal to order the provision of the certified copy of the election petition to his client.

Justice Shakeel Ahmad of the Peshawar High Court conducted the proceedings of the election tribunal.Aamir Javed, Shumail Ahmad Butt and other lawyers appeared before the election tribunal. They had submitted an application seeking the provision of the certified copy of the election petition. However, the defence lawyers maintained that the application was non-maintainable.

Former minister Kamran Bangash, former deputy speaker Mahmood Khan, former chairman of the district development advisory committee chairman Arbab Jahandad, former Member the National Assembly Sajid Nawaz, former Peshawar district nazim Muhammad Asim and others had filed the petition.

They had lost the last general election and had moved the election tribunal to challenge the victory of the winning candidates.A lawyer requested the court to take up the applications of the losing candidates at the earliest, saying that under the law, the election petitions were supposed to be decided within 120 days. At this, Justice Shakeel Ahmad remarked that even notices could not be issued within 120 days to all the respondents let alone deciding the cases.