Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) Scrutiny Cell is verifying all the nominations papers of candidates using modern technology.
According to ECP, data of more than 12,000 candidates has been sent to NAB, FBR and State Bank for verification and scrutiny while over 7500 nomination papers have so far been verified with the help of Online Data Scrutiny System.
ECP says that nomination papers of dozens of candidates have been declared suspicious.
Earlier, the Election Commission had allowed the candidates submission of papers till 1800 hours(6pm) yesterday.
According to the election schedule, scrutiny process of nomination papers will continue till 19th while appeals against rejection or acceptance of papers can be filed by 22nd of this month.
The Appellate Tribunals will decide about the appeals by 27th, after which the revised list of candidates will be published on 28th of this month.
Candidates can withdraw their papers by 29th of this month, after which the final list of candidates will be published the same day.
Election symbols will be allotted to the contesting candidates on 30th of this month, while the polling for both National and Provincial Assembly elections will be held on 25th of next month.
Maryam Nawaz To Contest from NA -127
Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will contest the upcoming elections, the first of her political career, from the National Assembly constituency in Lahore NA-127.
According to the details, Tanveer Zia Butt, on the behalf of Maryam Nawaz, submitted the nomination paper for NA-127 constituency in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
