Sumaira Malik challenges SC's verdict to nullify Khushab Election

ISLAMABAD: Sumaira Malik, leader of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz, had filed a review petition challenging Supreme Court's decision to nullify the elections of district counsel Khushab.

A three-member bench headed by Justice Mashir Alam will hear the review petition on Tuesday in court room number-II.

Sumaira Malik was directly affected the decision of the apex court as she was serving as the chairperson district council Khushab, prior to the decision and had to vacate the post later.

The directives came on a petition filed by Amir Haider and by a bench headed by Justice Gulzar which revoked the earlier decision of Islamabad High Court, which had restored Sumaira Malik’s official position.

The Islamabad High Court had set aside an Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision for re-elections in the district council.

In December last year, the ECP had annulled the election of PML-N’s Sumaira Malik to the office of Khushab district council by a majority vote of three to one against which the politician approached Islamabad High Court and got relief.

Malik is not a neophyte in the political spectrum of the country as she has been elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Constituency NA-69 (Khushab-I) three consecutive times.

She bagged 119,193 votes and defeated Umer Aslam Khan of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in general elections of 2013, however, was disqualified by the Supreme Court of Pakistan due to the possession of a fake degree in October 2013.