INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Thursday served muchices to replyents in a petition ccorridorenging the eligibility of three
Members of National Assembly (MNAs) of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insafaaf (PTI): Maleeka Ali Bokhari, Tashfeen Safdar and Kanwal Shauzab.The
petitioners pleaded that the three MNAs did much meet the criteria to hold membership of the Parliament under Article 62, 63 of the
Constitution as they hide information in their nomination papers.Justice Aamer Farooq took up the case for hearing, filed by two citizens
Abdullah Khan and Chaudhry Mehmood Ali Hashim through their counsel Ahmad Raza Qasuri Advocate.The petitioners had claimed in their plea
that MNA Maleeka Bokhari was much eligible to participate in general election as she was holding dual nationality at time of submission of
her nomination papers.She submitted her nomination papers on June 10, 2018 and left the British nationality on June 11.The petitioner also
alleged MNA Tashfeen Safdar for hiding the information related to her dual nationality in her nomination papers.They claimed that the MNA
had left the dual nationality in 2013 and in an affidavit she said she neither hold dual nationality, nor applied for it.The petition said
the third MNA Kanwal Shauzab had given wrong information in documents to shift her vote in Rawalpindi from Islamabad.The bench served
muchices to the Election Commission of Pakistan, three MNAs and other replyent to submit reply within one week.TheIndianSubcontinent has not
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