Lahore: A Pakistani high court on Friday overturned a tribunal decision disqualifying outgoing Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi from running in his home constituency, yet another dramatic twist ahead of general elections supposed to be held next month.

Abbasi is running for election in two constituencies, and the ban had applied to his home constituency in the Murree hill district close to the capital, Islamabad, where he will contest Imran Khan.

"We have got the ban suspended from the high court," Abbasi's lawyer, Khawaja Tariq Raheem, said.

Disqualification of candidates is one of the challenges his former ruling party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has faced ahead of the July 25 elections, which party founder Nawaz Sharif - who was ousted by the Supreme Court last year - has termed a "pre-poll rigging".

The Supreme Court on Thursday disqualified a former privatisation minister for the PML-N, Daniyal Aziz, from running for election for contempt of court over his criticism of Sharif's removal as political.

Sharif has argued that the Pakistani military, aided by top members of the judiciary, backed a series of decisions which banned him from politics for life. An election commission tribunal had ruled that Abbasi did not declare an accurate value of his assets in his nomination papers. Reuters