ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has dismissed the review petition of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Usman Dar in an ele
ction rigging case against State Minister for Water and Power, Khawaja Asif.
Crying foul, the applicant wanted a re-elect
ion in NA-110, the ele
ction constituency of Khawaja Asif.
A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar and con
sisting of Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah took up the review petition on Monday. During the course of the hearing, Babar Awan, the counsel for Usman Dar, took the plea that the records of three constituencies had not been recovered so far. He said that 8,773 counterfoils were also not found, while the meeting of Khawaja Asif with ele
ction staff was on record.
Chief Justice Mian Saqib remarked that ele
ction record was put in the storerooms while there w
as no ground present on which review had be
en taken. He said that the SC had given the right decision. “How can the SC declare the whole ele
ction as ‘set-aside’ on the plea of just ten people? We cannot call unregistered votes ‘bogus’.” The Supreme Court (SC) upheld the notification of Khawaja Asif’s success in NA-110 given in November 2016 and dismissed the review petition.
