LAHORE: The Appellate Tribunal of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Sunday dismissed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) activist Sanam Javaid’s appeal against the rejection of her nomination papers, while the tribunal cleared Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz will take part in the elections to be held on February 8.
The tribunal upheld the Returning Officer’s (RO) decision to reject jailed Sanam’s nomination papers filed from two National Assembly seats and one provincial assembly seat – NA-120, NA-119 and PP-150. Judge Tariq Nadeem announced the verdict on her appeals.
On the other hand, the tribunal dismissed Nadeem Sherwani’s appeal against the acceptance of Maryam’s nomination papers by the returning officer of NA-119.
On 19 December, Sanam submitted her nomination papers announcing that she would contest the election against Maryam Nawaz from Lahore Provincial Assembly, PP-150.
Sanam is among dozens of PTI workers and leaders who are in custody in connection with the May 9 riots that erupted after the arrest of PTI founder Imran Khan in a graft case.
She has been accused in several cases, including the attack on the Corps Commander House in Lahore and setting fire to police vehicles in the Cantonment area during violent protests earlier this year.
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Meanwhile, the LHC Appellate Tribunal set aside the RO’s decision to reject the nomination papers of PTI leader Hammad Azhar and his father Mian Azhar from PP-171 due to non-appearance of their minions and petitioners.
Their minions and petitioners appeared before the tribunal where Justice Ahmed Nadeem Arshad announced the verdict in their favour.
However, Justice Tariq Nadeem dismissed Azhar’s appeal against the rejection of his papers from NA-129 constituency.
