ISLAMABAD – An appeal was moved to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday challenging the victory of Abdul Aleem Khan, the head of the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP), from Lahore’s NA-117 constituency.
Ali Ijaz Buttar, an independent candidate backed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), submitted the appeal, naming Abdul Aleem Khan, other contesting candidates, and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) as respondents in the case.
In the plea, the petitioner urged the court to invalidate Form 47 issued on February 9 and requested the suspension of Abdul Aleem Khan’s victory notification issued on February 15. He also prayed the court to summon the complete record from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
The plea was filed in the IHC a day after it suspended the victory notifications of PML-N leaders including Tariq Fazl Chaudhary, Anjum Aqeel and Raja Khurram Nawaz from three constituencies of Islamabad.
A IHC division bench comprising Justice Mian Gul Hassan and Justice Arbab Tahir passed the order on an Intra-Party Appeal (IPA) challenging victories of the PML-N leaders from NA-46, NA-47 and NA-48.
Anjum Aqeel contested election from NA-46, Tariq Fazl Chaudhary from NA-47 and Raja Khurram Nawaz from NA-48.
Zulfi Bukhari had challenged the victory notification of Raja Khurram Nawaz from NA-48.
PTI leader Shoaib Shaheen who contested election from NA-47 had filed the appeal in the Islamabad High Court challenging victory of Tariq Fazl Chaudhary.
The division bench remarked that who was issuing such notifications from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
Shoaib Shaheen had challenged the order of the single bench comprising IHC Chief Justice Aamir Farooq who had dismissed the appeals against the results of the said constituencies.
