HYDERABAD: The Sindh High Court, which was seized with dozens of petitions challenging judgments of the election tribunal, on Wednesday disposed off 20 petitions.
According to details, the court dismissed the contentions against candidature of the respondents, allowing them all to contest the elections.
The petitions were filed against former chief minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah, former MNA Shazia Atta Mari, former provincial minister Syed Mardan Shah and Pakistan Peoples Party's candidates Tariq Masood Arain of Nawabshah and Shahid Thaheem of Sanghar districts, among others.
The petitioner Syed Jalal Mahmood Shah, who heads Sindh United Party, contended that the former CM Shah had submitted fake affidavits about his dual nationality in 2008 and 2013 general elections.
Shah, who is SUP's candidate for PS 80 Sehwan in Jamshoro district from where the former CM is also contending, claimed that he only gave up his Canadian nationality in 2013.The petitioner referred to a supreme court's order to argue that Shah had been disqualified.
He prayed the court to uphold decision of the RO who had rejected Shah's nomination on the same basis while setting aside the tribunal's order.
Another petition pleaded the court to disqualify Mari from the contest, claiming that Mari's graduation degree was fake and that she possessed two National Identity Cards (NICs).The SHC also dismissed 14 another petitions in which the petitioners prayed for changing location of the polling stations mainly in Sanghar district.
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