SC allows Shaukat Basra, Sanam Javed to contest polls

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) allowed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf(PTI)  candidates Sanam Javed and Shaukat Basra to contest the elections.

A three-member bench headed by Justice Muneeb Akhtar of the Supreme Court heard the appeals against the rejection of the papers of Sanam Javed and Shaukat Basra, in which the court first gave time to the lawyer of the Election Commission of Pakistan(ECP) to prepare, After which the court adjourned the hearing till 2 o’clock due to the busyness of DG Law Election Commission.

Later, the court heard the appeals of Sanam Javed and Shaukat Basra, the court annulled the decision to reject the papers of both the candidates and allowed them to contest the election.

The Court allowed Sanam Javed to contest the election from NA 120, 119, and PP 150.

The Supreme Court ordered the ECP to give election symbols to Sanam Javed and Shaukat Basra and said that elections should be held in these constituencies on February 8 as per the election schedule.

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