Imran Khan was dismissed by Pakistan's election

 

Imran Khan was dismissed by Pakistan's election board on Friday for failing to disclose gifts he received while serving as prime minister of the nation.

Khan was declared to have been removed from office by a five-member panel of the Election Commission of Pakistan, led by Election Commissioners Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja.

The decision states that Khan should be prosecuted for hiding the specifics of gifts he received from several nations throughout his more than three-year tenure as prime minister.

Khan was dismissed by the committee in accordance with Article 63 (p) of said Constitution, which provides that "he is temporarily dismissed from becoming elected or selected as a representative of the Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) or of a Provincial Legislature at all under the law currently in effect."

Khan would run in the general election of 2023, according to Fawad Chaudhry, a close adviser and former minister of news.

Since being removed from office in a no-confidence vote in the assembly in April, Khan has organised a number of anti-government protests and has called for early elections, which are currently slated for late next year.

He won a total of the seven National Assembly seats he was standing for nationwide through a by-election earlier this week.

The election committee will be the target of a statewide protest called by the organization, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which has opposed the decision.

Asad Umar, a PTI leader and former minister in Khan's cabinet, said that the Election Body "can have no power to remove any parliamentary member because the committee has breached the constitution."

I caution against expecting to reach the subtraction equation, and we're going to appealing to a higher court, he continued.

However, strike marches was staged all throughout the nation as a result to PTI leaders' calls for people to demonstrate against the decision.

Highways were banned by strikers as they chanted anti-commission chants in several locations.

'Tosha Khana' allusion

Together at demand of 5 members of the government alliance, the chairman of the National Legislature forwarded Tosha Khana's reference for Khan's disqualification to the Election Committee.

A govt division called Tosha Khana (treasure house) gathers gifts for presidents, prime ministers, ministers, foreign secretary, and parliamentary members.In the case, it was claimed that the former prime minister had concealed his wealth by not declaring the revenue he received first from sale of Tosha Khana's presents.

Khan was asked to be disqualified in the reference made in accordance with Article 63 of the Constitution.

At the session for the dispute, the former president minister's attorney, Barrister Ali Zafar, contended that the Election Commission is not a court and thus does not have the authority to disqualify a candidate under the terms of the article.