Abdul Khaliq Qureshi Abbottabad
Nomination papers of Speaker KP assembly Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani who was contesting from Abbottabad-1 PK 45 were rejected by the Returning officer as he could not appear before the RO for the scrutiny of the papers.
The main charge leveled against Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani was he is nominated in FIR’s filed at different police stations and he is stated to be absconder and currently he is staying at UK according to family source. According to further details, his nomination papers were filed by his elder brother Ilyas Ghani and he also got transit bail on 19th December from Peshawar High Court till today (27/12/2023) but he could not land at Peshawar as it was planned to come back from UK and to face the cases and will run his election campaign.
Mushtaq through his council has pleaded that his Passport if expired and had applied online for the renewal and when he will get the new passport, it was stated that he got two passport, one personal and one official which will be expired on 2nd January.
Nomination papers of his wife Farzana Mushtaq were accepted for the PK-45. His wife also remain MNA from PML (Q) in past. It was reported that some corruption cases are also registered against Speaker KPK assembly.