Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Islamabad: An appeal has been filed in the Supreme Court against the High Court’s decision to disqualify former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan from constitutional posts. An appeal has been filed in the Supreme Court against the dismissal of the petition seeking disqualification of Imran Khan for hiding the name of his alleged daughter Tyrian White while submitting nomination papers for the 2018 general elections. Let us tell you that the Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected the petition last month. The petition alleged that the 71-year-old founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party did not disclose his alleged daughter – Tyrian White – in his nomination papers to contest the 2018 general elections.
Khan’s party PTI won the 2018 general elections and the former cricketer-turned-politician was the Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to April 2022. In view of the earlier dismissal of the case by a three-judge bench, the IHC also dismissed it. Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri read out the opinion of the two judges given last year and ruled that the case had already been dismissed. Petitioner Mohammad Sajid, through his advocate Saad Mumtaz Hashmi, filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Saturday, arguing that the full bench of the Islamabad High Court erred in accepting the concurring opinion of two of the three judges as a court decision.
This was the allegation of the petitioner
According to the petitioner, Khan did not mention the existence of his alleged daughter while filing nomination papers to contest election from Mianwali constituency and only gave details of his wife Bushra Bibi and two sons Qasim Khan and Suleman Khan who live abroad. The petitioner said Khan has submitted a false affidavit and hence he should be disqualified. The petition said it is an undisputed fact that White, born on June 15, 1992, is Khan’s real daughter as her paternity has been confirmed by judicial records in the courts of California, US.
The petitioner claimed that the petition was decided before a full bench of the IHC on May 21, 2024, but the bench dismissed the petition instead of hearing the case afresh. Challenging the dismissal of his petition instead of hearing it afresh, the petitioner argued that the opinion of the two judges uploaded on the website is not a decision in view of the law declared by the Supreme Court in several judgments. (Language)
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