Former interior minister and Awami Muslim League Chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmad on Wednesday submitted an application to the Supreme Court seeking to grant voting rights to overseas Pakistanis. The petition pleaded with the court to declare the amendment to Clause 94 of the Election Act unconstitutional.The petitioner also requested the court to order the government to take steps to grant voting rights to the overseas Pakistanis.

While talking to the media outside the court building, Sh Rashid said that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf was actually a synonym for Imran. He said that his party would be with Imran wherever he went.Sh Rashid also said that PML-Q leader Ch Pervaiz Elahi would be the PTI candidate for the Punjab chief ministership. 

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Independent News Pakistan-INP