ISLAMABAD:  Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervaiz Ashraf rejected disqualification reference against former President and Pakistan Peoples’ Party co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari.

Reference was filed by Syed Zulfikar Abbas Bukhari also known as Zulfi Bukhari, which was received by NA Speaker a couple of days ago. In reference, it was requested that former President Asif Ali Zardari be disqualified as member of National Assembly under Article 62 and 63 of Constitution and it should be referred to Election Commission of Pakistan. Speaker rejected reference under Clause (2) of Article 63 of Constitution and sent copy of decision to ECP.

PTI submitted a reference against the former president and co-chairman of PPP Asif Ali Zardari to the National Assembly, seeking disqualification for acquiring cars from Toshakhana. PTI stated in a reference that there were pieces of evidence that Zardari had deviated from the law as he had acquired three cars from Toshakhana when Yousuf Raza Gillani was prime minister. “However, being president, Asif Zardari was not eligible to take cars from Toshakhana,” it said. According to the report published in a local daily, the reference stated that Zardari served as President of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013, and during his tenure he retained gifted bullet-proof vehicles from Toshakhana after ex-prime minister Gilani illegally relaxed the Toshakhana rules.

Published in The Daily National Courier, November, 03 2022

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