MARDAN  -  Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Pe­shawar region information secre­tary Engineer Adil Nawaz on Mon­day said that PTI’s former MNAs and MPAs have submitted petitions in the Peshawar High Court Elec­tion Tribunal against the ROs for illegally rejected their nomination papers for the upcoming general election. 

In a press statement issued here on Monday Adil Nawaz said that the ROs rejected nomination papers of former provincial minister Muham­mad Atif Khan, former federal min­ister of state Ali Muhammad Khan, MNA Mujahid Khan, MPA Iftikhar Ali Mashwani, Abdul Salam Afridi, Tufail Anjum, Ameer Farzand Khan. The PTI leaders have filed nomina­tion papers in ROs offices to partic­ipate in the election. 

He added that the ROs have re­jected the papers of PTI candidates without any reason in Mardan dis­trict. He argued that all PTI can­didates have submitted petitions in the Election Tribunal of Elec­tion Commission in Peshawar High Court against the ROs. 

Adil Nawaz added that it is hoped that the respected judges of Pesha­war High Court will uphold their traditions of justice and deliver jus­tice according to the Constitution and law.