ISLAMABAD: Announcing a landmark verdict on Wednesday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) disqualified Pakistan People's Party's candidate Waheeda Shah for two years and declared her election on PS-53 Tando Muhammad Khan null and void.
The ECP had earlier reserved the judgment in the much talked-about case till Wednesday.
Waheeda Shah's act of slapping an Assistant Presiding Officer in a polling station of PS-53 Tando Muhammad Khan during by elections of last month was highlighted by media and the issue was taken up by the ECP.
The Chief Justice of Pakistan also took suo motto notice of it and Waheeda Shah apologized for the shameful treatment she meted out to the Assistant Presiding Officer Shagufta Memon, a government school teacher by profession.
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