Pakistan

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Musharraf gets life ban from elections
By Syed Fazl-e-Haider

KARACHI - A Pakistani court has banned former president and military ruler Pervez Musharraf from electoral politics for life, barring him from contesting polls for the national and provincial assemblies as well as the senate. The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday declared the former army strongman ineligible to contest elections for life for abrogating the country's constitution.

The court's verdict came in response to an appeal Musharraf filed over the rejection of his nomination papers for a National

Assembly seat in Chitral district, the only constituency of several in which he sought to be a candidate where the returning officer had accepted his nomination papers. The four-member bench headed by the Chief Justice of PHC Dost Mohammad Khan ruled that since Musharraf had abrogated the constitution twice, he could not be allowed to contest
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