The Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) candidate on Thursday filed an objection on the nomination papers of Ishaq Dar for the Senate elections.

“There are legal defects in the documents submitted by Ishaq Dar for the Senate elections, if there are defects in the nomination papers, the nomination papers cannot be accepted,” said the SIC lawyer in his objection.

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Sunni Ittehad Council candidate Ansar Kayani filed the objection to the Election Commission.

The appellate tribunal for the two seats of Islamabad comprises Justice Saman Rifaat. Today is the last day to file objections against the candidates in the appellate tribunal. 

Islamabad: Former DG ISI Lieutenant General Retired Faiz Hameed has submitted a reply to the Faizabad Dharna Commission.

According to the sources, Faiz Hameed said in response that in the sit-in held in 2017, he had negotiated with Tehreek Labaik Pakistan on the instructions of the then government. In his reply, Faiz Hameed said that in 2017, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal headed a cabinet meeting which was attended by the then Intelligence Chief Naveed Mukhtar and the military leadership and on the joint instructions of all these people, he negotiated with the TLP.

Sources say that Faiz Hameed denied the allegations of conspiring against the government.

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