Imran Khan has been disqualified from contesting the nationwide elections scheduled for February 8. (File)
Karachi:
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 occasion’s media group stated 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 items whereas in workplace from 2018 to 2022.
Imran 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 group stated.
In an inventory of rejected candidates from Lahore, the Election Fee of Pakistan stated Imran 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 docket of regulation and has been disqualified”.
His media group stated the fee had additionally rejected his nomination to contest the elections from his hometown, Mianwali.
Imran Khan, who’s extensively seen because the nation’s hottest chief, says he’s being focused by the highly effective army, which needs to maintain him out of the polls. The army denies the cost.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court docket granted Imran Khan bail in a case associated to a leak of state secrets and techniques final Friday, a day after a excessive court docket refused to droop his disqualification from contesting the elections.
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