ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has rejected a petition seeking disqualification of Ishaq Dar as a member of the Senate and finance minister.
The court’s double bench, comprising Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui and Justice Athar Minallah, heard the petition moved by journalist Farrukh Nawaz Bhatti through his counsel GM Chaudhry advocate, seeking disqualification of Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar through a writ of qua warranto under Article 199 of the Constitution of Pakistan.
The petitioner made the chief election commissioner, FIA director general, National Accountability Bureau chairman and Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs Minister Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar respondents in the petition. Bhatti contended in his petition that since Ishaq Dar had submitted a confessional affidavit before an accountability court that he had committed acts amounting to money laundering as well as other financial irregularities, he is not eligible to become a senator and hold the slot of finance minister.
