Imran Khan Toshakhana case: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was on Monday put in a court of law after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected his plea to suspend the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision of his disqualification in the Toshakhana case. There was a big blow.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will have to go through a fierce legal battle to regain his political ground after being disqualified to remain in public office for five years in the Toshakhana case. According to a media report, foreign leaders. Khan on Friday lost his membership of parliament, as well as barred him from contesting elections for five years, after Pakistan’s Election Commission, the apex constitutional election body, found him guilty of concealment of proceeds from the sale of precious gifts that he received. was. The prime ministers of the heads of various states.
However, there is confusion about whether the five-year disqualification would apply only to the five-year term of the current assembly, or whether the period of disqualification would start from the date of the decision by the ECP. The term of the current National Assembly began in August 2018 and will end in 2023. Khan had already tendered his resignation as an MLA in April, but it was not accepted.
In this case, his disqualification will lapse with the expiry of the term of the Assembly. In his recorded message released after two back-to-back meetings of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party soon after the verdict, the 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician rubbished the allegations and vowed to contest his election. Ditch disqualification legally and not through street protest.
Clearly, it seems fitting that Khan took the constitutional route, which is winding down, and the legal process takes weeks, if not months, to complete. The appeal of the former Prime Minister needs to go to the High Court and then to the Supreme Court. The Dawn newspaper, in a report about Khan’s upcoming legal battle, said that his party had announced a challenge to the disqualification before the Islamabad High Court (IHC), but Khan faced another trial before a sessions judge. Because the ECP had sent a complaint against him. Submission of false declaration about concealment of gift.
According to a member of the party’s legal wing, since such an adverse decision was anticipated from the ECP, Senator Syed Ali Zafar, the head of the party’s legal team, has drafted a pre-emptive petition in this regard.
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