122 Dual-nationals File Nomination Papers

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Jun, 2018 ) :As many as 122 candidates having dual nationality have filed nomination papers for provincial and national assemblies' seats for the general election scheduled to be held on July 25.

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) carried out verification of the credentials of some 19,880 candidates and found 122 of them as dual nationals.

According to an FIA report submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), a copy of which is available with APP, anomalies were found in 49 nomination papers filed for the National Assembly, 53 for the Punjab Assembly, 11 for Sindh Assembly, eight for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and one for Balochistan Assembly.

The candidates' data was scanned by the FIA's Integrated Border Management System (IBMS), which records traveler data of all incoming and outgoing passengers traveling across Pakistani borders.

"This database was utilized to identify the foreign travel document presented by the traveler at immigration counter while embarking / disembarking on the journey," the report said.

Out of the total, as may as 60 were found to be UK nationals, 26 US nationals, 24 carried Canadian passport holders, three Ireland, two have Belgium nationality, while one each held passport issued by Singapore, Australia, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Spain and even Uzbekistan.

"The said data analysis exercise is limited to the available data in IBMS repository. All those contesting candidates who have traveled on a foreign travel document as per our record but have initiated renunciation process to surrender their foreign nationality have been treated as foreign travel document holder," the report said.

Following are the Names of dual national candidates and their Constituencies for National Assembly seats; Muhammad Gulfam (NA-13), Muhammad Tariq (NA-18), Tufail Muhammad (NA-19), Arsallah Khan Hoti (NA-21), Siraj Mohammad (NA-25), Arshad Bashir (NA-32), Hashim Inamullah Khan (NA-36), Muhammad Saleem (NA-40), Ali Begum Khan (NA-46), Farhana Qamar (NA-53), Chaudhry Muhammad Khursheed Zaman (NA-58), Muhammad Azhar Aslam (NA-60), Nadeem Khadim (NA-66), Bilal Azhar (NA-66), Muhammad Akram (NA-73), Mohammad Akbar Chaudhry (NA-74), Ali Zahid (NA-74), Naveed Anwar Bhinder (NA-81), Muhammad Naveed (NA-86), Malik Muhammad Wazir (NA-87), Aqeel Ahmed (NA-102), Zahid Akram (NA-128 & NA-14), Nasira Sangal (NA-137 & NA-138), Ghulam Mujtaba Rai (NA-141), Sumera Ahsan (NA-141), Umair Anwar (NA-142), Jahan Ara Chaudhry (NA-143), Ahmad Yar Haraj (NA-151), Liaquat Ali Khan (NA-158), Tehmina Shafique Ahmed (NA-182), Nadir Leghari (NA-204), Sardar Muhammad Usman Almani Baloch (NA-211), Babar Chandio (NA-225), Arshad Naeem Khan (NA-227), Zafar Ali Khan (NA-227), Sabir Hussain (NA-244), Habib Shaikh (NA-246), Fauzia Danial Kasuri (NA-247), Fesal Vawda (NA-249), Araish Kumar (NAM), Farhana Qamar (NAPW), Nasira Sangal (NAPW), Maleeka Ali Bokhari (NAPW) Mehr Shafiq Ahmed (NAPW) , Tashfeen Safdar (NAPW) and Kausar Nasir (NASW).

In Punjab as many as 53 candidates including Jahangir Khanzada (PP-2), Razik Dad Khan (PP-5), Muhammad Haroon Kamal Hashmi (PP-7), Shakila Shaukat (PP-8), Chaudhry Mohammed Ishtiaq (PP-8), Chaudhry Muhammad Khurshid Zaman (PP-8), Shakila Shaukat (PP-9), Lal Hussain (PP-26), Tauseef Raza Hussain (PP-26), Nadeem Khadim (PP-26), Zafar Iqbal (PP-26), Bilal Azhar (PP-26), Syed Amir Hamza Peerzada (PP-26), Khurshid Alam Chaudhry (PP-28), Ali Raza Warraich (PP-30), Choudhry Naeemakhtar (PP-33),Muhammad Akram (PP-36), Mohammad Akhlaq (PP-36), Tariq Subhani (PP-38), Mohammad Akbar (PP-40),Babar Siddique (PP-46), Najam Hussain Cheema (PP-53), Naveed Anwar Bhinder (PP-59), Baasima Chaudhry (PP-66), Amir Abdullah Khan (PP-87), Ismel Muhammad (PP-1113), Mohammad Ramzan (PP-120), Muhammad Tariq (PP-131), Naveed Akhtar Khan 9PP-139), Imtiaz Mehmood (PP-152), Chaudhry Muhammad Aatif (PP-159), Imtiaz Mehmood (PP-166), Chaudhry Muhammad Aatif (PP-167), Imtiaz Mehmood (PP-166), Abrar Hussain (PP-173), Nasira Sangal (PP-175), Muhammad Javed (PP-183), Jahan Ara Chaudhry (PP-184), Ahmad Yar Hiraj (PP-205), Liaqat Ali Khan (PP-221), Mohammad Afzal Karim (PP-231), Muhammad Ali Langrial (PP-232), Mohammad Sohail Wahid (PP-260), Imtiaz Mehmood (PP-166), Masud Majeed Khan (PP-262), Sardar Arslan H Leghari (PP-265), Araish Kuma (PAKM), Munawar Sultana (PAPW), Riffat ul Muntaha Qureshi (PAPW), Amra Shahbaz (PAPW), Baasima Chaudhry (PAPW) and Tashfeen Safdar (PAPW have been found as dual nationals.

While in Sindh 11 candidates including Nadir Akmal Khan Leghari (PS-19), Sardar Muhammad Usman Almani Baloch (PS-33 & PS-34), Ameeruddin Abro (PS-58), Babar Chandio (PS-63, PS-64 & PS-67), Zafar Ali Rajput (PS-67), Murad Ali Shah (PS-80), Habib Shaikh (PS-109) and Syed Imran Ali Shah (PS-129) were found dual-national.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa eight candidates including Habibul Mukhtar (PK-13), Zulfikar Khan Tanoli (PK-33), Muhammad Qasim Shah (PK-42), Mohammad Farooq Khan (PK-45), Arsallah Khan Hoti (PK-52), Ziaullah Khan (Pk-6), Zahid Khan (PK-63) and Hisham Inamullah Khan (PK-92) appeared to be foreign passport holders.

In Balochistan a candidate Asim Ali Shah (PB-26) was found dual national.