Pakistan election physique rejects Imran Khan’s 2024 nomination

Pakistan’s election physique has rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s nomination to contest the 2024 nationwide elections in two constituencies, officers and his get together’s media staff mentioned on Saturday.

The 71-year-old former cricket star has been embroiled in a tangle of political and authorized battles since he was ousted as prime minister in April 2022.

He has not been seen in public since he was jailed for 3 years in August for unlawfully promoting state presents whereas in workplace from 2018 to 2022.

Khan has been disqualified from contesting the nationwide elections scheduled for Feb. 8 due to the corruption conviction, however he however filed nomination papers for the elections on Friday, his media staff mentioned.

In an inventory of rejected candidates from Lahore, the Election Commission of Pakistan mentioned Khan’s nomination was rejected as a result of he was not a registered voter of the constituency and since he’s “convicted by the court of law and has been disqualified”.

His media staff mentioned the fee had additionally rejected his nomination to contest the elections from his hometown, Mianwali.

Khan, who’s broadly seen because the nation’s hottest chief, says he’s being focused by the highly effective navy, which desires to maintain him out of the polls. The navy denies this.

Last week, a excessive court docket refused to droop Khan’s disqualification from contesting the elections.

In addition to Khan, the election fee has additionally rejected nomination papers submitted by different senior get together members, together with Shah Mehmood Qureshi, vice chairman of Khan’s get together, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI).

Meanwhile, the election fee accepted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s nomination from two constituencies for the 2024 elections, weeks after a court docket overturned two graft convictions.

But Sharif nonetheless wants a life ban on holding any public workplace to be eliminated to qualify to face, so it was not instantly clear how his nomination was accepted. A listening to on that ban might be held in January.

Sharif was banned from working in elections in 2017 by the Supreme Court, which declared him dishonest for not disclosing revenue from an organization owned by his son.

Sharif, who arrived again dwelling in October from 4 years of self-imposed exile in Britain, is bidding for a fourth premiership within the February elections. His largest problem might be to wrest again his help base from Khan.