LAHORE: PML N Leader and former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar gets yet anotherblow as his nomination papers for the Senate seat have been rejected by theElection Commission of Pakistan.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) rejected on Monday Ishaq Dar’snomination papers for the Senate elections.

Dar, a former finance minister and sitting senator, had applied on atechnocrat seat from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.

The returning officer rejected his nomination papers duringscrutiny todayasthe counsel for a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf candidateobjectedthat Dar hadnotsubmitted an authenticdeclarationof his assets.

The returning officer ruled that Dar, thus, is not ‘honest’ and ‘truthful’as perthe Constitution.[image: an image]

Moreover, the nomination papers of PML-N’s other technocrat seat candidate,Hafiz Abdul Karim, were also dismissed today.

Dar, in London for medical treatment since October last year, is facing acorruption case in the accountability court for amassing assets beyond hisknown sources of income.