ECP issues denotification for Sardar Ayaz Sadiq

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued the denotification for Speaker of the National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Monday.

The ECP had received the tribunal's verdict regarding NA-122 Lahore from where the NA Speaker had been elected.

With the denotification Ayaz Sadiq ceased to be a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and is no longer the Speaker of the august house.

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Meanwhile Sadiq’s lawyers have completed his appeal which will be filed before the Supreme Court. The appeal states that none of the allegations were proven and there is no witness to the alleged rigging. According to the appeal the witnesses presented before the tribunal had no link with the NA-122 constituency.

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The election tribunal on Saturday declared election in NA-122 nullified and ordered re-polling in the constituency. Sardar Ayaz Sadiq reserves the right to seek a stay order from the Supreme Court which if granted will stop the ECP from holding re-elections in NA-122. If no stay order is received the ECP is liable to hold re-election in 7-days.

Ayaz Sadiq had defeated the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan in the May 2013 general elections, but his victory was challenged by the PTI chief in the tribunal.