(16 Apr 2013)
1. Wide of Dr. Mohammad Amjad, Secretary General of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf's All Pakistan Muslim League Party, with party members
2. Mid of meeting
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Mohammad Amjad, Secretary General and spokesman, All Pakistan Muslim League:
"After hearing the decision of the courts in all four areas, provinces, now we have come to the conclusion that this decision is based on some conspiracy and there are some forces behind this decision who have managed to reject the paper all from the areas."
4. Close-up of Musharraf's photo and election symbol of hawk
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Mohammad Amjad, Secretary General and spokesman, All Pakistan Muslim League:
"We are going for the appeal in the Lahore high court and which they have to take a decision within the next three days and after that, if still that court decides again to give the same decision of rejection, then we have the right to go to the supreme court."
6. Mid of Amjad being interviewed
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Mohammad Amjad, Secretary General and spokesman, All Pakistan Muslim League:
"Obviously when every one is pressurising him (Pervez Musharraf) from the court, from the election commission, from rejecting his paper, so naturally morale is, I mean, is down, but still, what I have seen him, what he said is that, whatever is the case, whatever the court decides, my people, my party will go into election."
8. Cutaway of hand
9. Pan of Amjad and party workers
STORYLINE:
Pakistani judges disqualified Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday from running in the upcoming parliamentary election, lawyers said.
The former military ruler recently returned from self-imposed exile to make a political comeback.
Over a week ago, a judge in the remote northern district of Chitral gave Musharraf approval to run in the May 11 election, even though he was disqualified in three other districts for suspending the constitution and sacking senior judges while in power.
Pakistan's political system allows a candidate to run for multiple seats simultaneously.
Lawyers challenged the Chitral decision, and on Tuesday a three-member appellate tribunal at the high court in the main northwest city of Peshawar disqualified Musharraf from running in the district, said two of the lawyers who raised objections, Taufiq Asif and Rao Abdur Rahim.
Asif challenged Musharraf's candidacy because of his actions while in power, while Rahim said there were procedural flaws with the former military ruler's nomination.
Musharraf's spokesperson and secretary general of All Pakistan Muslim League, Dr. Mohammad Amjad, said he plans to appeal the ruling in the Supreme Court.
Amjad said the party had "come to the conclusion that this decision is based on some conspiracy and there are some forces behind this decision who have managed to reject the paper all from the areas."
He said that Musharraf's morale was "down" as a result of the ruling, but that the former leader had told him that "whatever is the case, whatever the court decides, my people, my party will go into election."
The tribunal's decision is one of the biggest blows in what has been a bumpy return for Musharraf after over four years in self-imposed exile.
Musharraf seized power in a military coup in 1999 and ruled for nearly a decade before he was forced to step down and left the country in 2008 because of growing discontent with his rule.
He returned to Pakistan last month to stage a political comeback, but he has been met with low levels of public support, a variety of legal challenges and Taliban death threats.
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