LAHORE: An election tribunal on Tuesday dismissed an election petition against Federal Information Minister Attaullah Tarar as non-maintainable.<\/p>\n
The decision was announced by the tribunal, comprising retired justice Rana Zahid Mehmood, on the election petition filed by PTI-backed independent candidate Zaheer Abbas Khokhar.<\/p>\n
Khokhar, who contested against Tarar, had challenged the notification of Tarar\u2019s victory from NA-127, Lahore.<\/p>\n
Khokhar had lost his election to Tarar with a margin of 15,980 votes as the latter bagged 98,210 votes against 82,230 of the former.<\/p>\n
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had also contested the 2024 general election from the same constituency; however, he stood third with 15,005 votes.<\/p>\n
However, the tribunal dismissed the petition on technical grounds, declaring it not maintainable for failing to comply with statutory requirements under the Election Act 2017.<\/p>\n
In his petition, Khokhar alleged the impugned notification of the respondent\u2019s victory was a result of \u201ccorrupt and illegal practices\u201d committed on the polling day.<\/p>\n
He alleged that the election commission had manipulated and forged Forms 45 and 47 to declare the respondent a returned candidate.<\/p>\n
Khokhar asked the tribunal to set aside the impugned notification and declare the petitioner a returned candidate from NA-127.<\/p>\n
The election tribunal had previously sought arguments on the maintainability of the election petition in November 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LAHORE: An election tribunal on Tuesday dismissed an election petition against Federal Information Minister Attaullah Tarar as non-maintainable. The decision was announced by the tribunal, comprising retired justice Rana Zahid Mehmood, on the election petition filed by PTI-backed independent candidate Zaheer Abbas Khokhar. Khokhar, who contested against Tarar, had challenged the notification of Tarar\u2019s victory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17279,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17277\/revisions\/17279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}