Petition filed in Peshawar High Court for specific seats of Sunni Unity Council
The Peshawar High Court has issued a restraining order on the decision of the Election Commission on the allotment of certain seats.
A hearing was held in the Peshawar High Court on a petition against the decision not to allot specific seats to the Sunni Ittehad Council.
PTI took the position of joining the Election Commission, Muslim League-N, PPP, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, MQM and other political parties that we have joined the Sunni Ittehad Council, given specific seats in proportion to the general seats in the election. But the seats were not given to the Sunni Ittehad Council, specific seats can be allotted even after the election.
Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim asked that this case is only limited to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or the whole country?
Qazi Anwar Advocate said that the Election Commission gave the same decision on the seats of the National and Provincial Assemblies, the specific seats of our part cannot be distributed constitutionally and legally, we want those who have been given seats not to take oath.
“You want them to be restrained from swearing, we will look into the matter and then pass an order,” the court said.
The petitioner’s lawyer said that the Election Commission says that the Sunni Ittehad Council did not give the list.
Justice Shakeel Ahmed remarked that you want to say that we have not given the list, then these seats cannot be given to others.
Peshawar High Court, after the completion of Qazi Anwar’s arguments, issued a restraining order till tomorrow, sought answers from the Election Commission and other parties and adjourned the hearing till tomorrow.
The court, while restraining the newly elected members of the Assembly from taking oath, directed that the Speaker should not administer the oath to the women and minority members elected to the specific seats till tomorrow.
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