Peshawar: Peshawar High Court on Tuesday blocked Khyber Pakhtunkwa general electionCall in the investigation of so-called violations during polls.
Justice Sahibzada Asadullah and Justice Mohammad Ijaz Khan issued notices to Assistant Directors and Election Commission through the Chief Election Commission seeking their petitions jointly submitted by five officials, their challenge to the inquiry and issuance officials and challenged their inquiry and issuance on August 29.
The judge directed the ACE to continue the investigation under the law, but not to take any action against the petitioner until further orders.
The petitioners included lecturers from a local college, Ms. Racing, and four others asked the court to put aside and revoke the question being hit and notified to them were illegal and unconstitutional.
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Barrister M Yaseen Raza Khan appeared for the petitioner and said his client served as hosts of their respective polling stations during the February 2024 election hero.
He noted that after the election, petitioners and others like them will face strong opposition from candidates who won the highest number of votes/seats at the conference. He added that under the 2017 Election Act, different complaints were filed against petitioners and others before the ECP.
He said that all the general allegations of the failed candidates were related to alleged tampering in official records at the end of the poll. He said that the Chairman’s officials, including the petitioner, allegedly tampered with and issued forged and manufactured Form-45 to return the candidate and uploaded on the ECP website.
Mr. Khan said that the petitioner is participating in the investigation process by the relevant committee composed of the ECP under the election law and has also submitted reply, etc.
He was surprised by the completeness of the petitioners, who received a notification of barriers from the ACE on August 29 as the preliminary investigation of July 16, 2025 was initiated based on a complaint by Taimoor Salema Khan Jhagra, one of the candidates.
He said the petitioner’s instructions seemed to be helpful in connection with the abused inquiry.
The lawyer noted that the petitioners appeared and recorded their statements on the date of the report. He said the petitioner explicitly informed the assistant directors that they were undertaking special election obligations in accordance with the orders of the ECP and that their actions and complaints should be related to the conduct and complaints under the election law. Related to elections.
He believes that the official was also informed that the same complainant had filed a complaint on the same charges before the ECP, which had previously filed the complainant, who was pending the deputy deputy deputy agent.
He said the petitioners recorded their statements so much that they did not commit any violations during the last election.
He argued that the officer kept the pending issues and informed the petitioner that he expected further contact with the ACE related to the investigation.
Lawyers argue that election laws and rules establish a comprehensive, professional legal framework for conducting elections, resolving election disputes, and deliberations on election-related offences.
He said that when the constitutional body ECP had been arrested for complaints about the allegations related to the election, any parallel enquiry by ACE officials, a mandate for the same charges reduced the exclusive legal mandate to approve the election.
Posted at Dawn on September 24, 2025
