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Pak Election Commission denotifies Gilani after SC verdict | | The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has denotified the national
assembly membership of outgoing prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and pronounced
him ineligible to contest parliamentary polls for five years, following the Supreme
Court order. The official notification issued by the ECP read that as a consequence
of Gilani's disqualification as parliament member by the apex court, the ECP notifies
him disqualified as an MNA with effect from April 26, reports The Nation. The
notification followed the commission's top-level meeting, chaired by the ECP acting
commissioner Justice Shakirullah Jan and attended by three of the total four Members
of the Election Commission (MECs), to unanimously proceed in the light of the
apex court's Tuesday ruling. Gilani is the second politician from the ruling Pakistan
Peoples Party (PPP) to have faced disqualification in less than four months. Earlier
in March, the commission disqualified and slapped a two-year ban on Waheeda Shah.
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