Staff Reporter
Karachi
The Sindh High Court on Tuesday admitted a petition seeking the disqualification of Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda for allegedly lying to the Election Commission of Pakistan ahead of the July 2018 general elections. Advocate Qadir Khan Mandokhel pleaded in the petition that Vawda had concealed his dual citizenship at the time of filing nomination papers to the polls’ supervisory body. “When the matter was taken up by the court, Vawda quietly applied to surrender his US citizenship,” Mandokhel claimed in his petition. “Evidence suggests that Faisal Vawda was a dual citizen at the time of the election, thus he should be disqualified and be ordered to return all perks and privileges.”
