Appellate Tribunal Rejects PTI’s Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind Petition To Contest Elections

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Appellate tribunal rejects PTI’s Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind petition to contest elections

The appellate tribunal disqualified Rind for involvement in several cases

Islamabad (Pakistan Point News – 26th June, 2018) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind has been declared ineligible to contest general elections.

According to media reports, the appellate tribunal disqualified PTI leader Rind. Following the decision, the PTI leader will not be allowed to contest the elections. Rind is reportedly facing 12 cases of different nature.

Rind is PTI’s president for Balochistan. The PTI leader had submitted nomination papers from NA-260 and PP-17.

The appellate tribunal rejected the Rind’s appeals on nomination papers and restricted him from contesting the 2018 elections.

Rind is considered as a senior leader of PTI. He is a known Baloch leader and has been offered ministries in different governments but he refused to accept them out of his principles and tradition.

He was elected as the chairman of District Council Kachhi in 1993. He was elected to the Senate in 1985, and the National Assembly in 1990, 1993 and 1997. He served as the Federal Minister for food, Agriculture and Livestock in 2002.

Rind joined PTI along with his aides in 2015.

Mahnoor Sheikh

The writer is News Editor, Pakistan Point. She has graduated in Mass Communication and has worked in various media houses