This applies to any Pakistani Presidential nominee. What is a covering candidate? Asif Zardari choose his sister to be his covering condidate.
Papers of major presidential candidates cleared
Updated at: 1125 PST, Thursday, August 28, 2008
ISLAMABAD: The Chief Election Commissioner has accepted the nomination papers of Asif Ali Zardari, Justice Saeeduzaman Siddiqui and Mushahid Hussain after scrutiny here on Thursday.
Chief Election Commissioner Qazi Muhammad Farooq has scrutinized the papers on which no objection has been filed from any side.
Thirty-two candidates had submitted their nomination papers for presidential polls. The candidates would withdraw nominations till Saturday whereas final list would also be issued on the same day.
The presidential poll will be held on September 6.
Qazi Farooq has rejected the papers of 27 candidates because there was no proposer and seconded. Peoples Party and PML-N could not raise objection on each other’s candidate.
The nomination papers of covering candidate of Asif Zardari’s covering candidate Faryal Talpur and PML-N covering candidate Roeadad Khan have also accepted.