Haleem seeks to disqualify CM from SHC

The Tehreek-e-Insaf MPA of Pakistan and the opposition leader of the Sindh Provincial Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh have submitted a petition to the Sindh High Court (SHC) requesting the cancellation of the Chief Minister of Sindh, Said Murad Ali Shah ( Syed Murad Ali Shah) is a member of the Provincial Assembly on the grounds that he submitted a false statement about his dual citizenship to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) before the 2008 election.

The petitioner submitted to SHC that CM should be disqualified from the Sindh Provincial Assembly because he was disqualified by the Supreme Court earlier in the dual citizenship case and instructed him to return all the allowances and allowances he received from 2008 to 2013. Privilege, but he did not obey the order.

Sheikh claimed that Shah participated in the election on the basis of false declarations and asked the High Court to disqualify him from submitting false declarations to the ECP. The petitioner submits that CM is not eligible to be a member of the Provincial Assembly. He asked the High Court to instruct the ECP to cancel Shah’s notification as a member of the Provincial Assembly.

SHC has conducted a hearing on the disqualification of CM on the same basis. The ECP notified the court of appeals against CM’s dismissal due to a false statement made before the committee’s submission.

The ECP special secretary proposed that after the Supreme Court’s decision on dual citizenship, Shah chose to resign from his seat in the provincial assembly instead of submitting to the ECP a declaration that he is a dual citizenship holder. The High Court was informed that Shah’s resignation was accepted on November 30, 2013, and that he had applied for renunciation of Canadian citizenship on September 29, 2012.

The secretary submitted that the ECP has instituted criminal proceedings against the Shah in accordance with the Supreme Court’s judgment on the submission of false declarations during the 2008 general election under the People’s Representative Law and the Pakistan Criminal Code. He said that the complaint was rejected by the conference court and ECP appealed to SHC.

He said that ECP also accepted the petitioner’s application for disqualification from CM, but postponed the matter indefinitely until the SHC made a decision on the criminal appeal. He proposed that CM had participated in a by-election in 2014 and announced that he would return due to a non-competitive election.

The ECP raised that the disqualification issue was again challenged to SC during the 2018 election, but the Supreme Court rejected the issue, arguing that Shah was not affected by the lifetime injunction under Article 62(1)(f) and was eligible to participate in the election In 2018, the secretary’s application for re-examination on disqualification matters was also sub-examined in SC.