{"id":364,"date":"2026-03-31T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/?p=364"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:37:29","slug":"tribunal-rejects-petition-against-tarars-na-127-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/tribunal-rejects-petition-against-tarars-na-127-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal rejects petition against Tarar\u2019s NA-127 win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LAHORE<\/strong>: An election tribunal on Tuesday dismissed an election petition against Information Minister Attaullah Tarar\u2019s victory from NA-127 in the 2024 general elections as non-maintainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was announced by the tribunal, comprising retired justice Rana Zahid Mehmood, on the election petition filed by PTI-backed independent candidate Zaheer Abbas Khokhar, who had contested against Tarar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khokhar had lost his election to Tarar with a margin of 15,980 votes as the latter bagged 98,210 votes against 82,230 of the former.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had also contested the 2024 general election from the same constituency; however, he stood third with 15,005 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tribunal dismissed the petition on technical grounds, declaring it not maintainable for failing to comply with statutory requirements under the Election Act 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his petition, Khokhar had alleged the impugned notification of the respondent\u2019s victory was a result of \u201ccorrupt and illegal practices\u201d committed on the polling day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He alleged that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had manipulated and forged Forms-45 and -47 to declare the respondent a returned candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khokhar had asked the tribunal to set aside the impugned notification and declare the petitioner a returned candidate from NA-127.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The election tribunal had previously sought arguments on the maintainability of the election petition in November 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: An election tribunal on Tuesday dismissed an election petition against Information Minister Attaullah Tarar\u2019s victory from NA-127 in the 2024 general elections as non-maintainable. The decision was announced by the tribunal, comprising retired justice Rana Zahid Mehmood, on the election petition filed by PTI-backed independent candidate Zaheer Abbas Khokhar, who had contested against Tarar. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[27],"class_list":{"0":"post-364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"authors":[{"term_id":27,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"afnanwasif","display_name":"Web Desk","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cbec8328241e98fefcd32e00f20f7a6b502086a0b95d395db4b1565c51681914?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}