Peshawar: The decision of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa caretaker government to include the names of former ministers and assembly members of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in the Fourth Schedule and to reject the nomination papers was challenged in the Peshawar High Court.
According to the details, Peshawar High Court was approached against the caretaker government’s recommendation to include the names of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s former ministers and members of assembly in the Schedule Four list and as a result rejecting their nomination papers submitted for the elections.
Petitions in the Peshawar High Court by former members of the assembly and provincial ministers belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Dr. Amjad Ali, Salim-ur-Rehman, Mian Sharaft Ali, Gul Zafar Khan, Anwar Zeib, Humayun Khan, Fazal Hakeem and others have been filed by Syed Sikandar Hayat Shah and Muhammad Adil. Khan (Senior) Advocates have filed mediation.
The provincial government, Additional Chief Secretary Home, IGP and the administration of the respective districts have been made parties in the petitions.
On behalf of the petitioners, we have taken the stand that we are ex-members of parliament and peaceful citizens, the District Intelligence Coordination Committees of various districts have recommended to put the names in Schedule IV and based on these recommendations, the concerned rating officers have appointed the petitioners. The nomination papers were rejected.
It has been contended in the petitions that the petitioners are peaceful citizens and one whose name is included in Schedule IV is the Chairman Deputy Commissioner of DICC. According to the writ petition, the nomination papers of the petitioners have been rejected on the ground that their names have been recommended by the DICC to be included in Schedule IV.
It has also been held that in order to include a name in Schedule IV, it is necessary that the person being listed is a member of or funding a terrorist organization. The petitioner is a former member of the assembly how can he be a criminal. He himself has been affected by terrorism in the past.
The petitions have urged the High Court to quash the recommendations of the district administration.
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