ISLAMABAD: Hafiz Saeed-linked Milli Muslim League has determined to make use of the platform of a little recognized celebration to contest the upcoming common election, a day after Pakistan's ballot panel rejected for a 2nd time an software by means of the MML, an offshoot of the Mumbai assault mastermind's banned Jamat-ud-Dawah, to sign up it as a political celebration.
Around 200 applicants backed by means of the MML will contest the July 25 election beneath the banner of the Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek (AAT), which is already registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the Express Tribune reported.
The resolution was taken after the ECP again dismissed the MML's software for registration on Wednesday.
The MML has announced that applicants backed by means of the celebration will likely be taking part from the platform of the AAT if upper courts do not rule of their favour before the election. The AAT is listed at quantity 10 in the ECP's record of authorized parties.
The AAT, a little recognized celebration, is headed by means of Mian Ihsan Bari from Bahawalpur. The celebration has already been allocated the 'chair' as an election image by means of the ECP.
A four-member ECP bench dismissed the MML software on basis of an interior ministry file that stated the celebration adopted the ideology of JuD chief Saeed.
An office bearer of the gang alleged that the inner ministry in its letter to the ECP falsely claimed that Saifullah Khalid, the MML president, is a son-in-law of Saeed. "In fact they are not even distant relatives," he stated.
"The interior ministry requested the ECP to keep its letter secret, however, this has been told to our lawyer by one of the members of the bench," he added.
MML spokesman Tabish Qayum stated his celebration will challenge the ECP's resolution in the upper courts. He stated a case concerning the celebration's registration is already pending with the Islamabad High Court.
During the hearing, MML suggest Rizwan Abbasi stated the federal government could now not oppose registration of any political celebration. "No one can predict if a political party will affiliate with banned outfits in the future," he stated.
The executive thru a presidential ordinance has stated that someone or organisation which has been declared proscribed by means of the UN could be deemed as a banned outfit in the country.
The MML was formed in August last yr. The group, then again, denies any hyperlink to LeT or some other banned outfit even supposing Saeed was already campaigning for the MML since last month.
In April, the USA designated the MML as a foreign terrorist organisation, saying the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba's (LeT) participants make up MML's leadership and the so-called celebration overtly displays Saeed's likeness in its election banners and literature.
The Jamat-ud-Dawah (JuD) is assumed to be the front organisation for the LeT which is accountable for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai assault that killed 166 other folks, including six Americans.
The US Department of the Treasury has designated Saeed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and the USA, since 2012, has offered a $10 million praise for information that brings Saeed to justice.
The first rejection of MML's software by means of the ballot panel was put aside by means of the Islamabad High Court previous this yr.
Around 200 applicants backed by means of the MML will contest the July 25 election beneath the banner of the Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek (AAT), which is already registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the Express Tribune reported.
The resolution was taken after the ECP again dismissed the MML's software for registration on Wednesday.
The MML has announced that applicants backed by means of the celebration will likely be taking part from the platform of the AAT if upper courts do not rule of their favour before the election. The AAT is listed at quantity 10 in the ECP's record of authorized parties.
The AAT, a little recognized celebration, is headed by means of Mian Ihsan Bari from Bahawalpur. The celebration has already been allocated the 'chair' as an election image by means of the ECP.
A four-member ECP bench dismissed the MML software on basis of an interior ministry file that stated the celebration adopted the ideology of JuD chief Saeed.
An office bearer of the gang alleged that the inner ministry in its letter to the ECP falsely claimed that Saifullah Khalid, the MML president, is a son-in-law of Saeed. "In fact they are not even distant relatives," he stated.
"The interior ministry requested the ECP to keep its letter secret, however, this has been told to our lawyer by one of the members of the bench," he added.
MML spokesman Tabish Qayum stated his celebration will challenge the ECP's resolution in the upper courts. He stated a case concerning the celebration's registration is already pending with the Islamabad High Court.
During the hearing, MML suggest Rizwan Abbasi stated the federal government could now not oppose registration of any political celebration. "No one can predict if a political party will affiliate with banned outfits in the future," he stated.
The executive thru a presidential ordinance has stated that someone or organisation which has been declared proscribed by means of the UN could be deemed as a banned outfit in the country.
The MML was formed in August last yr. The group, then again, denies any hyperlink to LeT or some other banned outfit even supposing Saeed was already campaigning for the MML since last month.
In April, the USA designated the MML as a foreign terrorist organisation, saying the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba's (LeT) participants make up MML's leadership and the so-called celebration overtly displays Saeed's likeness in its election banners and literature.
The Jamat-ud-Dawah (JuD) is assumed to be the front organisation for the LeT which is accountable for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai assault that killed 166 other folks, including six Americans.
The US Department of the Treasury has designated Saeed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and the USA, since 2012, has offered a $10 million praise for information that brings Saeed to justice.
The first rejection of MML's software by means of the ballot panel was put aside by means of the Islamabad High Court previous this yr.
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