Supreme Court of Pakistan has Allowed Criminals, Terrorists, Money Launderers, Loan Defaulters, National of Any Country to Participate and Get Elected to National Parliament

The Constitution of Pakistan requires honest and capable people to be elected to the national parliament. For this purpose, Constitution has included necessary criteria for the prospective candidates to meet to participate in the national election.
Also, the Constitution gives the right to every Pakistani to know about the candidates’ background and other particulars before voting. To fulfill this requirement Article 62 and 63 were included in the Constitution.

To fulfill the requirements of Article 62 and 63 of the Constitution the prospective candidate has to provide the following information in the Nomination Form;

1. The candidate must not have any criminal record.
2. He must not be a loan defaulter.
3. He must not be a utility bills defaulter.
4. He has to declare his assets under his own name, his wife’s name as well as children’s’ name inside the country as well as outside of the country.
5. He has to declare what other nationality he has if any other than Pakistani. Constitution does not allow dual national or national of any other country to be in the national parliament of Pakistan.
6. His education level.
7. His sources of income.
8. His bank accounts within Pakistan as well as outside of Pakistan.
9. His travels during the last three years and who paid the expenses.

Under the Election Act 2017 which was approved by the National Parliament, the prospective candidates don’t have to provide any data mentioned above.

We believe this Act was against the basic rights of the people of Pakistan also against the spirit of the fundamental component of democracy.

In December 2017 a petition was filed in Islamabad High Court to make this Act revoked and previous and Nomination Form which was used in the Election 2013 should be reinstated. Justice Aiysha Malik gave the verdict yesterday and asked the Election Commission to reinstate the Election 2013 nomination form.

Today Supreme Court declared Islamabad High Court’s decision null and void.

We believe without any reservations that this action of Supreme Court is total ignorance of the Constitution and clearly to support Sharif-Zardari mafia.