: View from ‘Dawn’: Disqualifying Imran Khan from Parliament seems unnecessarily harsh #IndiaNEWS Within days of sweeping to victory on six of the seven National Assembly seats he had contested in

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View from ‘Dawn’: Disqualifying Imran Khan from Parliament seems unnecessarily harsh #IndiaNEWS
Within days of sweeping to victory on six of the seven National Assembly seats he had contested in the Oct 16 bye-polls, former prime minister Imran Khan has been disqualified from being chosen as or remaining a member of parliament under Article 63(1)(p) of the Constitution.The sentence against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief was passed unanimously by a five-member bench of the Election Commission of Pakistan over his failure to properly account for monetary proceeds from the sale of gifts he had received from foreign dignitaries while he was prime minister. Apart from depriving him of the seats he had just won, the verdict also formally removes Khan from the National Assembly seat he had retained in 2018.While the Election Commission of Pakistan’s findings in the Toshakhana case may not have been completely unexpected – the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf seemed to have an idea of what was coming, given how persistently it had been assailing the commission’s partiality – it must be said that the sentence seems unnecessarily harsh.Instead of participating in and precipitating the technical knockout of yet another popular leader on flimsy grounds, the Election Commission of Pakistan should have considered turning the matter over to the tax authorities. It has, instead, issued a verdict that does not...Read more

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