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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been barred from standing as a parliamentary candidate in JanuaryLast month, Sharif returned from exile. He was overthrown in a 1999 military coup led by the then head of the army, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani president.
President Musharraf resigned from his army post last week.
On Thursday, he was sworn in for a second term as president, this time as a civilian.
Sharif has until Friday to appeal against the ban.
According to Reuters news agency election officer Raja Qamaruzaman said that his nomination papers are rejected because of his convictions.
The decision had been made under pressure I am very clear that there is somebody else who is maneuvering things, a lawyer for Sharif, Imtiaz Kaifi, said.
Pakistani President Musharraf signed into law an amnesty earlier this year that cleared former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto from corruption charges facing her.
At the time he and Ms Bhutto were engaged in power-sharing talks. The amnesty was a major factor in her decision to return from self-imposed exile.
However the terms of the amnesty did not clear Sharif.
He was found guilty of hijacking and terrorism after ordering in 1999 that the plane carrying Musharraf back to Pakistan be stopped from landing.
The move led to Musharraf staging the coup.
Sharif went into exile the next year.
Later on Monday, Sharif and Ms Bhutto are due to meet to discuss a possible joint boycott of elections in January.
Musharraf says he will lift emergency rule, imposed one month ago, on 16 December.
Sharif has called for a boycott, but Ms Bhutto has indicated that a boycott would play into hands of Musharraf.
Brother of Sharif, Shahbaz, has already been banned from the January elections. He had also applied to stand for a Lahore constituency.
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