ISLAMABAD-Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and Member National Assembly (MNA) Ali Nawaz Awan Tuesday challenged the victory of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and joint candidate of opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) Yousaf Raza Gilani in the Senate polls before the Islamabad High Court (IHC). 
The PTI leader Ali Nawaz filed the petition against the success of Gilani and cited him, his son Syed Ali Haider Gilani and Chairman Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) as respondents.  The petitioner stated that two days before the elections to the Senate, a few video clips surfaced in the electronic and social media. He added that the video clip showed that Ali Haider Gillani is horse-trading illegally and unlawfully offering monetary consideration for votes to certain MNA’s for his father Yousaf Raza. 
He continued that the video clips also exposed his instructions to addresses how to render one’s vote useless and this is a sheer and daunting violation of the Constitution of Pakistan and the section 168 of the Election Act, 2017.  According to the petition, another audio tape also surfaced and got viral in social media in which Syed Nasir Hussain Shah provincial minister for Sindh had a very clear and unequivocal conversation with Haider regarding bribing the members of National Assembly for obtaining support in the Senate election of 2021. 
The petitioner contended that Gilani and his son are guilty of corrupt practices under sections 167, 168, 169 and 170. 
Therefore, he prayed to the court to issue a writ of quo warranto requiring the ECP to respond under which law, Gilani has been allowed to submit his nomination papers. 
He requested the court to issue a writ declaring election of Yousaf Raza to the Senate of Pakistan as unconstitutional, illegal and void ab initio. He also requested to issue a writ of prohibition – of interim nature – whereby the notification and his publication as to the success of Gilani may be suspended and stayed.