*RAWALPINDI: Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan’s nominationpapers for NA-59 Rawalpindi were challenged on Tuesday. *
As the process of scrutiny of nomination papers submitted by electioncandidates is under way, an application challenging the candidacy of Nisarfor a NA seat has been filed with the relevant returning officer.
It has been argued that the former federal minister was involved in anattack on a court. He, therefore, is ineligible to contest the upcominggeneral elections.
Nisar has submitted his nominations papers to a returning officer at theRawalpindi office of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for NA-59Rawalpindi, NA-63 Taxila and Punjab Assembly’s PP-10 and PP-12.
The returning officer has asked him to appear on June 13 for scrutiny ofhis nomination papers.
The maverick PML-N leader has announced to contest the polls as anindependent candidate after the party leadership’s foot-dragging overawarding him election ticket.