By The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has disqualified PTI’s Senator Faisal Vawda as a lawmaker for a situation connected with his double nationality.
A three-part ECP seat headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja reported the decision today, which was held on December 23 on an appeal looking for preclusion of Vawda for covering his double nationality at the hour of recording his election nomination papers in 2018.
The ECP seat had held its decision after the complainant – PPP MNA Qadir Khan Mandokhail – finished his contentions.
In its judgment, the ECP saw that Faisal Vawda had presented an off-base affirmation at the hour of recording his election nomination papers in 2018.
The ECP also proclaimed him ineligible for holding the seat of a senator and requested to pull out the notice given in such a manner.
Vawda can move toward the Supreme Court against the decision, said the ECP.
The PTI pioneer had resigned from his National Assembly seat to disguise his wrongdoing, the ECP noticed and guided him to return every one of the advantages and monetary advantages which he had profited as a lawmaker in two months.
Previous ECP secretary Kanwar Muhammad Dilshad said that Vawda also falls into the classification of lifetime preclusion like previous PM Nawaz Sharif and Jahangir Khan Tareen.
He said that he could challenge the decision in the apex court.
In the last hearing, CEC Sikandar Sultan Raja had found out if he needed to introduce more records or give extra arguments.
Mandokhail had said it was the 30th hearing of the case however he was unable to find the solutions to his inquiries. The PPP chief had said, “ECP has been giving alerts for the final remaining one-and-a-half years.”
On this, Raja had said that the ECP will conclude the case whether it gets the answers or not.
Mandokhail was of the view that Faisal Vawda had held US nationality at the hour of recording his election nomination papers. He had said that the concerned RO was not punished as he had dismissed his papers instead of disqualifying Vawda.
The PPP chief had said that Vawda had dishonestly pronounced in a promise to the ECP that he didn’t hold any foreign nationality, adding “the PTI pioneer had covered his double nationality during the investigation of his nomination papers.”
Vawda’s council, however, had dismissed the charges, saying that his client never applied for another nation’s nationality. He had said, Vawda was born in the US and that his client had dropped his American visa.
According to the NADRA’s record, Vawda’s US citizenship had been seized on May 29, 2018, his counsel had said.
The chief election commissioner had asked whether NADRA could give an endorsement that says an individual is a Pakistani resident and not that of some other country.
“How might NADRA know this? We will investigate this matter,” the chief election commissioner had said.
After hearing the contentions of the two sides, the ECP had held its decision in Vawda’s preclusion case.
Vawda had won the 2018 general election from Karachi’s NA-249 electorate.
In January 2020, an insightful report had uncovered that Vawda might have committed perjury by dishonestly announcing in a promise to the ECP that he didn’t hold any unfamiliar identity.
As per the report, Vawda was in control of a United States visa at the time he documented his selection papers on June 11, 2018. The minister stayed an American public even at the time the investigation of his assignment papers were finished.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan in a past judgment has completely decided that competitors who hold double nationality should present a renunciation certificate of the foreign nationality alongside their nomination papers.
A similar judgment has recently prompted the exclusion of different administrators, remarkable among whom Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) representatives Saadia Abbasi and Haroon Akhtar.
