Kanju ordered to submit reply by October 19

MULTAN: The Multan Bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday adjourned till Oct 19 the hearing of a petition seeking disqualification of PML-N MNA Abdur Rehman Kanju for using dual CNICs under two different names and directed him to submit a written reply to the charges.
The petitioner’s counsel, Azhar Salim Kamlana, told The News that Kanju was using delaying tactics in submitting his written reply. He said his client Safdar Hussein Gillani had filed a petition challenging the dual CNICs and educational certificates of Kanju. The LHC Multan bench sought a detailed response from him but he didn’t submitting his response despite the passage more than a year, he added.
Kamlana said Kanju had been found involved in using dual CNICs on two different names as he was doing his family business on a CNIC bearing name Sardar Khan and political business on Abdur Rehman Khan Kanju.
Kanju - an independent candidate - had won the National Assembly seat in the 2013 general elections by securing 85,376 votes. Later, he joined the PML-N. Now he is facing a tough time for allegedly having two CNICs.
Kamlana said the manual identity card 326-80-811852 issued in the name of Sardar Khan depicted 1976 as his year of birth while the CNIC issued in the name of Abdur Khan Kanju showed he was born in 1980.
His family property including agriculture land was transferred in the name of Sardar Khan Kanju, he informed.
According to Kamlana, Kanju advertised his change of name from Sardar Khan to Abdur Rehman Khan in Lodhran’s local newspaper in 1999.
Kanju allegedly committed dishonesty again by using his fictitious CNIC in 2004 when he had been sanctioned a regular loan in the name of Sardar Khan.