Azhar said that election tribunal allowed them to contest Senate election despite that both the candidates concealed their assets, foreign tours and correct details of bank accounts in their nomination papers. Both the candidates did not meet the criteria set by Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution. He asked the court to set aside decision of the tribunal and to restrain the respondents from contesting Senate elections.
In another petition pending before a single bench of the LHC he had already challenged nomination papers of Shaheen Khalid Butt, Rana Maqbool, Sadia Abbasi, Nuzhat Sadiq, Mushahid Hussain, Zubair Gull, Ahmad Saeed Kirmani and Hafiz Abdul Karim of PML-N besides Ch Muhammad Sarwar of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). He objected to process of scrutiny for Senate election alleging that 'malafide amendments' were introduced through Election Act 2017 to protect defaulters, corrupt as well as those having dual nationality.