The Election Commission on Sunday allowed PML-N leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif to contest in by-election.

Decision came from Election Commission after Lahore High Court failed to decide their nomination because of split decision. Nawaz Sharif, who was barred from taking part in February elections because of criminal convictions, had filed papers to take part in the by-elections for MNA seat from Lahore which is due later this month.

Nomination papers of Nawaz Sharif were challenged on the plea that he was convicted by courts on variety of charges after he was removed in 1999.

Sharif had refused to fight the case in the court as he was determined not to appear before those judges who had taken oath under an interim order issued by President Musharraf when he proclaimed emergency in November 2007.

Both Sharif and his brother, Shahbaz, had filed nomination papers to run in the by-election. (NNI/GEO/Agencies)

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