A leading PMl-N candidate for the July 25 general elections was arrested and sent to Adiala jail after he was convicted by a court and handed down life imprisonment in a six-year old case, in a telling blow to jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Hanif Abbasi, a senior Pakistan Muslim league-Nawaz (PMl-N) leader, was convicted by the Control of Narcotics Substances Court of Rawalpindi and sentenced to life in the case related to misuse of controlled chemical ephedrine.
Abbasi, a close aide of Sharif, was arrested from the court yesterday and taken to the same Adiala Jail where the PMl-N supremo is held. The Election Commission of Pakistan today announced that elections in the NA-60 Rawalpindi constituency will be held after the completion of the general polls.
The ECP is “bound to provide a level playing field to all candidates” and keeping in mind the heated debate in the media and by leaders of politicl parties, the commission has decided to postpone the elections in NA-60, it said.