Disqualification in Tosca Khana reference: Will Imran Khan be able to participate in the election now?

 Disqualification in Tosha Khana reference: Will Imran Khan be able to participate in the election now?

When the Election Commission of Pakistan disqualified Chairman Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan in the Tosha Khana reference on Friday, a debate arose as to how long this disqualification of Imran Khan will last and whether he will be able to participate in the next general elections. Or not?One of the reasons for this confusion is that the Election Commission has not issued a complete written decision, in the absence of which the government and Tehreek-e-Insaf are giving their own interpretations.After the Election Commission's decision came out, Federal Law Minister Nazir Tarar said that Imran Khan's disqualification is for five years, which means that now Imran Khan will not be eligible to participate in the upcoming elections.On the other hand, some leaders of Tehreek-e-Insaaf believe that this decision of the Election Commission will be applied to Imran Khan's current National Assembly seat, but the success he got in the by-elections will not be affected by this decision.Among those who believe in this opinion are former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry and his younger brother Faisal Chaudhry, who are often seen pursuing cases against Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders in various courts.While Imran Khan's close legal adviser Hamid Khan disagrees with the interpretation of the law, he does not agree with the opinion of the Chaudhry brothers of Jhelum, nor with the opinion of senior party leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi that the Election Commission has this jurisdiction. It didn't happen.Amid Khan told the BBC that the EC has the status of a tribunal and that the commission has quasi-judicial powers (quasi-judicial powers) under which the commission is authorized to 

After the disqualification of Imran Khan, Tehreek-e-Insaaf workers protested in different citiestion Commission, Imran Khan has not only lost his seat, but has also been disqual                                                                            According to him, with the decision of the Elecified from all the six seats won in the by-elections.However, Hamid Khan's opinion regarding the disqualification period is that it will last for the duration of the current assembly and Imran Khan will be eligible to contest in the next general elections.Referring to the disqualification of Yusuf Raza Gilani, he said that the decision was given by the Supreme Court when he was found in contempt of court because the then Prime Minister, despite the order of the court, again called the Swiss authorities against the then President Asif Zardari. No letter was written regarding investigating the cases.According to Supreme Court senior lawyer Akram Sheikh, Imran Khan's disqualification has been for five years. According to him, after the decision of the Supreme Court against Yusuf Raza Gilani, his disqualification was done by the Election Commission.It should be noted that the Election Commission disqualified former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani for five years after he was found guilty by the Supreme Court in the contempt of court case

.According to Akram Sheikh, there is a mention of disqualification for five years in the constitution, but there is no concept of disqualification for life.According to him, he was the lawyer of PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi, who filed a petition against Jahangir Tareen, but he never asked the court for the relief of disqualifying Jahangir Tareen for life because there is no such provision in the constitution. does not exist.'It should be noted that during the hearing of a case in recent days, Chief Justice Umar Atta Bandial had declared lifelong disqualification as a black law.However, according to Akram Sheikh, the Chief Justice himself was a part of the bench which had interpreted life-time disqualification for 'a specific person' (former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif).Hamid Khan admits that the disqualification period is five years in the constitution, but he says that according to the decision of the Election Commission, it has linked Imran Khan's disqualification to the term of the current assembly. Which is made up to August 2023, that is, Imran Khan will be in the election arena in the general elections.According to him, Article 62 of the Constitution deals with eligibility while Article 63 deals with disqualification.

According to Akram Shaikh, 'disqualification is related to a candidate and therefore he has to bear the consequences of such a decision. He called the argument that Imran Khan can remain a member of the assembly from the seat won in the by-elections absurd.According to him, Tehreek-e-Insaaf will have to give concrete evidence to the courts to suspend this decision because the decision given by the Election Commission was given after checking the facts.According to Akram Sheikh, 'Imran Khan will have to tell where the money with which he bought the gifts came from and whether he had mentioned it in his statements or not.'"Similarly, they have to be reassured that the money for the gifts that were sold was also revealed."

After the Election Commission's decision, PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi while speaking to the media after a meeting chaired by Imran Khan in Bani Gala said that the government's plan to remove Imran Khan from politics will give, that plan will not be able to reach the end.'According to him, the Election Commission did not have the authority to take the decision and that is why he has directed Senator Ali Zafar to prepare a petition to challenge the decision.According to the former foreign minister, 'first he dismissed the government through a conspiracy and intervention and the people rejected this decision, after that there was public communication and there were meetings of Imran Khan, in the assembly you showed loyalties. But it showed that the loyalty of the people could not d.It should be noted that Imran Khan has said Why is Imran Khan so anxious for the long march

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf held a long march towards Islamabad on May 25 this year. But the very next day, Imran Khan suddenly ended the march by saying that 'if the new election is not announced in six days, then I will come back.'In recent times, Imran Khan has repeatedly asked the people to be ready to participate in the long march in his various meetings. On the other hand, the way the federal government is erecting barriers in Islamabad through containers, it seems that a long march will be announced by Imran Khan within the next few Federal Interior Minister also said two days ago that Imran Khan plans to go on a long march between October 12 and 17. The most important question here is that why is Imran Khan so worried about the long march at this time?