Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan's legal counsel on Monday submitted reply over objections to his candidacy for the upcoming general election for NA-53 constituency of Islamabad. The reply, which was submitted by the deputy of Babar Awan, the lead counsel for PTI chief, stated that the objections to Imran's candidacy are based on fraud. The objections rose against Imran fall under the ambit of forgery, it added.
It further mentions that there is a legal mechanism in place to send or receive documents from foreign countries, adding that the objections raised against Imran's candidacy are allegations. Earlier, PTI chief Imran Khan and his counsel Babar Awan excused from appearing before returning officers for the scrutiny of his nomination papers for NA-53 Islamabad.
Imran and his counsel skipped to appear before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in Lahore. The cricketer-turned-politician's counsel had asked returning officers if they could appear for the PTI chairman's scrutiny for the Islamabad constituency on Tuesday instead as he had to appear before ECP in Lahore today as well.
A day earlier, the ECP summoned Imran, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Aisha Gulalai, who had been affiliated with the PTI in the past, for the scrutiny process for nomination papers for NA-53. The returning officers had summoned the NA-53 candidates to physically appear before the ECP. The PTI chairman had also been ordered to submit a reply to reservations against his candidacy raised by Abdul Wahab Baloch.
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