Who does the scrutiny of papers ? how?
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Nomination papers are scrutinised by the officials of the election commission known as the returning officers .
The returning officer judiciously examines them and decides the objections raised, if any.He also checks the provisions concerning the deposit , election symbol and election agent .✔✔
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Every election season, some people are very surprised when they come to know through the media that a returning officer (RO) has asked a candidate for a National Assembly or provincial assembly seat to read out from some chapter of the Holy Quran. In other instances, the candidates have been told to recite a particular prayer (often it is the dua-e-qanoot) from memory. Sometimes, ROs even ask candidates how many times a day they go to the mosque to pray.
No matter how bizarre all these questions may appear, ROs are in fact trying, in accordance with constitutional provisions, to make sure that candidates meet the criterion of having “adequate knowledge of Islamic teachings” and are practicing the “obligatory duties prescribed by Islam”. The problem is that there is no law or rule that clearly lays down how to judge a candidate on the basis of these parameters. ROs, therefore, keep applying their own methods for the scrutiny of nomination papers submitted by candidates.
This scrutiny is an integral but quite contentious part of the electoral process. Its objective is to establish that a candidate conforms to the qualifications prescribed in Article 62 of the Constitution. It is also meant to ascertain whether a candidate is disqualified from becoming a member of the national or provincial legislatures as per the provisions laid out in Article 63 of the Constitution.
There are a total of seven qualifications listed in Article 62 that a prospective member of a national or provincial assembly is required to possess. Four of these are specific and, therefore, relatively easy to establish: a candidate must be a Pakistani citizen; he or she must have attained a minimum age of 25 years; he or she must be enrolled as a voter; and, most critically, there must be no adverse ruling against him or her as far as honesty and integrity are concerned.
This last provision has been a subject of great controversy. In recent times, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and former secretary general of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Jahangir Tareen, both have been disqualified by the Supreme Court from being members of a legislature under this particular provision. PTI chief Imran Khan and former federal minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, on the other hand, have escaped disqualification after petitions were heard by the apex court on allegations that they, too, had violated this provision.