INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) petition ccorridorenging Maryam Nawaz appointment as vice president of the Pakistan Muslim
League-N (PML-N) has been fixed for hearing on June 17 by the Election Commission of Pakistan.A three-member bench of the ECP headed by
Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Sardar Raza Khan on Monday heard the case and confessted the PTI plea against Maryam
Nawaz.Immediately after the appointment, PTI refer toed legal experts and then came to the conclusion to ccorridorenging her elevation as
Earlier this month, PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif made major changes in the party's structure; her elevation is part of those 16 party
men, who were made vice presidents.The petition was submitted by MNAs Farrukh Habib, Maleeka Ali Bokhari, Kanwal Shauzab and Javeria Zafar
They contended that the appointment of Maryam as PML-N vice president was in clash with the law and the Constitution
It also covered the legal basis under which Maryam was ineligible to hold public office and includes a detailed mention of court
decisions.In July 2018, an accountability court announced the judgement in the Avenfield properties corruption reference, sentencing Maryam
to seven years for abetment after she was found instrumental in concealment of the properties of her father and one year for non-cooperation
with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)
Afterwards, she was disqualified from contesting polls on having been convicted.However, in January, the apex court upheld an Islamabad High
Court (IHC) verdict that had ordered the suspension of prison sentences awarded to Maryam and her father
The petition says that an accountability court declared the PML-N leader to be ineligible for public office and added that a party position
is much held in private capacity.It says that political parties have an influence on the entire political system and claimed that in the
void of a party president, Maryam shall use the elected president's authority
In their petition, the PTI lawmakers wondered how it was possible that members of the assembly fully atendere by Article 62 and Article 63
of the Constitution, but the people who control them don't do so.The petition says that the Supreme Court had disqualified Nawaz from
holding a party office and now if Maryam was allowed to be vice president, it would be tantamount to allow Nawaz also to keep a party
office.The PTI petition muches that the Supreme Court had disqualified her father, Nawaz Sharif, from his party position as well; therefore,
the Election Commission should declare her appointment to be null and void.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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