ISLAMABAD: A Supreme court bench declared Sharif brothers ineligible to contest polls and rejected the petitions against their disqualification.The Supreme Court was requested to set aside the verdict of the Lahore High Court (LHC).
On June 23, 2008, a full bench of the Lahore High Court disqualified PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif from contesting the election. However, the court had conditionally allowed PML-N President Mian Shahbaz Sharif to hold the office of the chief executive of the province.
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Justice Muhammad Moosa K Leghari, Justice Syed Sakhi Hussain Bukhari and Justice Sheikh Hakim Ali, was hearing a set of pleas pertaining to electoral eligibility of Sharifs.
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