Tariq Saeed Peshawar
The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday suspended ECP disqualification proceedings against KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf.
The Election Commission of Pakistan, it may be recalled, has last week accepted a plea seeking the disqualification of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur for hearing. The election watchdog had also directed the chief minister to appear before the District Election Commissioner on March 26.
The ECP had issued a short order on the plea, maintaining that Ali Amin Gandapur did not submit his assets to the election commission and that he had got 735 kanals of land in Dera Ismail Khan transferred in his name unlawfully. The disqualification plea read that the chief minister KP was not eligible to hold public office and should be disqualified and de-seated as a member of the KP Assembly.
A two members bench of the Peshawar High Court comprising Justice Ijaz Anwar and Justice Waqar Ahmed, who heard the petition, also issued notices to the parties and summoned their reply.
During the proceedings the court remarked that after the Supreme Court’s verdict, no institution has been authorized to declare someone ‘truthful’ and ‘trustworthy’.
