SC freezes results of Madaris qualified winners
(Updated at 1430 PST)
LAHORE: Supreme Court of Pakistan has restrained Election Commission of Pakistan (EC) from gazette notification of the names of all those Madaris certificate holders who got elected in Local Bodies polls-2005.
The apex court’s decision, which was faxed here by the Deputy Registrar, Bashir Janjua to EC directed that the results of the winning candidates bearing religious seminaries certificates should not be released through official gazette notification.
The Supreme Court comprising of Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Faqir Mohammad Khokar and Justice Syed Saiyeed Ashad passed this order in the case of Shaukat Ali and others who were earlier permitted to contest the elections provisionally.
However, later on, the court in its detail order had decreed that Madaris certificates without qualifying in English, Urdu and Pakistan Studies could not be accepted as equivalent to Matriculation.
Shaukat Ali and others, according to unofficial results, have won in LB polls held on August 25.
(Updated at 1430 PST)
LAHORE: Supreme Court of Pakistan has restrained Election Commission of Pakistan (EC) from gazette notification of the names of all those Madaris certificate holders who got elected in Local Bodies polls-2005.
The apex court’s decision, which was faxed here by the Deputy Registrar, Bashir Janjua to EC directed that the results of the winning candidates bearing religious seminaries certificates should not be released through official gazette notification.
The Supreme Court comprising of Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Faqir Mohammad Khokar and Justice Syed Saiyeed Ashad passed this order in the case of Shaukat Ali and others who were earlier permitted to contest the elections provisionally.
However, later on, the court in its detail order had decreed that Madaris certificates without qualifying in English, Urdu and Pakistan Studies could not be accepted as equivalent to Matriculation.
Shaukat Ali and others, according to unofficial results, have won in LB polls held on August 25.
I wouldn't know if Madari certificate holders could be classified as criminals. I don't think holding such ceritficates would automatically mean that the person is a terorrist, expecially in an Islamic country.
It is muzzling of democracy as also to appear to the West as pliable to its demands.
The fact that such candidates have won (and one doesn't know how many and will possibly never know) does indicate that the home truth is different from that wanting to be projected.
One should know the ground position so that one can evolve a strategy to combat it, rather than debarring after the election.
If they were that obnoxious as to not be fit to hold even be elected to such primary step of democracy, then they should have been banned from contesting.
Now, that they have won, to debar them will only add to the militancy and not deter it.
A move that portends an evil wind!
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