June 4: The News report by Umar Cheema states that the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s decision to suspend the Lahore High Court decision regarding the revision of nomination papers has brought the much-desired relief to the election candidates but at the cost of transparency and accountability. In a rare display of consensus October last year, all the parliamentary parties had deleted as many as 19 declarations from the nomination papers which required key information about their finances, loan default, tax-evasion, criminal proceedings and business interests. Earlier, change in the nomination paper was the prerogative of the Election Commission of Pakistan.

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