Peshawar:
The Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N) has presented a writing request in the Superior Court of Peshawar (PHC) that challenges the allocation of reserved seats in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assembly. The party has asked the Court to restrict freshly selected members in seats reserved to make an oath until a final decision is made.
The Pakistan Electoral Commission (ECP) has been appointed in the petition. After the Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf Parliamentarians (PTIP), PML-N has also resorted to the Court about what it says what an unfair distribution of the reserved seats says.
Filed through the lawyer Saqib Raza, the request of the PML-N argues that the party has seven seats in the KP assembly.
However, the ECP has allegedly assigned ten seats reserved for Jamiat Ulema-E-Islam (F) based on seven general seats, while PML-N only received eight seats reserved for the same number of general seats.
The party states that it initially won six general seats in the province, and an independent member joined its ranges within three days after the election, which carries its total seven. Despite this, the ECP allocated reserved seats only in proportion to six general seats, which the petitioner maintains that it is unfair.
The petition urges the Court to cancel the notification of the ECP regarding the distribution of reserved seats and order the commission to review the assignments.
