Dar’s Senate membership annulled
islamabad — The Supreme Court has suspended the Senate membership of former finance minister Ishaq Dar after he failed to appear before the court on Tuesday .
Dar’s lawyer informed the court that he was unwell which is why he had been unable to appear before the court.
“Whenever someone is ill, their medical certificate is presented,” said Justice Ijazul Ahsan, rejecting Dar’s medical report.
The court gave orders of his suspension from Senate while hearing a petition filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ’s (PTI) Nawazish Ali Pirzada — who had received 12 votes as a Senate candidate on technocrat seat from Punjab against Dar’s 155.
The case was adjourned until after Eid Al Fitr after Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar announced he was going abroad for two weeks.
Senator-elect Dar has been suffering from left arm and chest pains resulting from a spinal issue in his neck and may require surgery if his condition does not improve within a month, the Supreme Court was informed on Monday.
The apex court had summoned the former finance minister, who has been in London since October 2017 and was declared absconder by an accountability court in a corruption reference, on May 8 in a petition challenging his election to the Senate.
A medical report submitted by Dar’s counsel in the Supreme Court on Monday, which has been issued by the London Neurosurgery Partnership and dated April 26, stated that the former finince minister has also had cardiac issues and had to undergo an emergency stent implant in the past. — APP