ISLAMABAD – *The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has disqualifiedPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Nasir Cheema for violatingelectoral rules.*

Cheema had included pictures of Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nasir and Chief ofArmy Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on his election posters.

The PTI candidate was contesting the election from PP-53 Gujranwala.

At an earlier hearing, Chief Election Commissioner Justice Sardar MuhammadRaza had asked Cheema why the army chief and chief justice’s pictures wereon his election posters. “Are they your relatives?” the electioncommissioner had asked.

“What do the army chief and chief justice have to do with the elections?”he had asked the candidate.