Islamabad:
A Constitutional Bank (CB) of the Supreme Court rejected on Thursday the request of one of the PTI councils to defer the hearing of the reserved seat case until August, noting that the bank intended to listen to the case daily.
Previously, Salman Akram Raja resumed his arguments in support of the majority order of July 12, 2024 of a complete SC bank. He referred to the SC judgment in the case of the Sindh Superior Court bar, which, he said, serves as an example of how the SC can intervene for the restoration of the Constitution.
“After the emergency imposed on November 3, 2007, several measures were taken, but the Supreme Court declared that the unconstitutional emergency, and all the actions taken later were also annulled.”
“The Court had ruled that the designated judges after the emergency had no legitimate status, and their elimination of seated judges was also declared illegal; the retired judges were reincorporated.”
During the hearing, Raja also referred to the allocation of seats reserved in the general elections of 2013, 2018 and 2024. He said the registration shows that in the previous elections, the political party that won general seats received reserved seats in approximately the same proportion.
“However, the situation is different in recent general elections. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a party [PTI] That assured that 83% of the general seats were assigned zero reserved seats, “he said.
Judge Jamal Khan Commandkhail asked Raja how the Supreme Court can prevent any politician from challenging the elections independently.
“Suppose Imran Khan, Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto or Maulana Fazlur Rehman, for the main leaders of the party, decide to compete independently, how can we prevent them?” asked.
Judge Musarrat Hilali declared that losing an electoral symbol does not mean that the political party registry is canceled. PTI candidates joined the Sunita Ittehad (sic) council, but that the sic was not present in Parliament, he said.
Judge Commandkhail said that Raja cited the case of the lawyers of the Superior Court of Sindh, but in that case, the facts were indisputable.
Judge Hasan Azhar Rizvi commented that in the elections not based on parts of 1985, a political party called himself the ‘Awam Dost’ party. “Did you present any term of this type? [for the PTI for the polls]”The lawyer replied that the PTI introduced the term” Kaptaan Ka Sipahi. “
Judge Muhammad Ali Mazhar observed that there seemed to be a lack of coordination within the PTI. Judge Commandkhail added that it seemed that the 39 members of the Assembly who openly declared their affiliation with the PTI were more sensitive. “” Or they were more sensible, or they had a greater pressure tolerance, “Judge Hilali praised.
Remembering the past political events, SIC’s lawyer Hamid Khan said that the decision in the intraparte electoral case of PTI was announced the last day for the allocation of electoral symbols.
“It was a Saturday, a holiday, but the case was heard until 11 pm at night. Our candidates were still waiting, wondering what the verdict would be at midnight, our electoral symbol was removed and the deadline for the allocation of symbols.
He said that the ECP gave the ANP more time despite the fact that the ANP had not even held any choice “that we had made elections, but the ECP did not accept them. We urged ourselves to pretend, if necessary, but it stripped us of our electoral symbol. On the same day, the ANP and the PTI were treated differently,” he said.
Judge Muhammad Ali Mazhar replied that the ANP was given a chance for the first time, while the PTI had already received several years. “The constitution of its party became more infallible, we can even say that it is better than others,” he said
Hamid Khan commented that it seemed that the PTI was punished for writing a better constitution. The CB also dismissed Hamid Khan’s request to defer the case until August. The court will resume the hearing at 9:30 am today.
On January 13, 2024, a three -member SC Bank confirmed the order of the Pakistan Electoral Commission (ECP) on December 22, 2023 that declares the intrapartamental surveys of the null and null PTI.
As a consequence of the SC verdict and its erroneous interpretation by the ECP, PTI candidates had to dispute the general elections of February 8, 2024 as independents.
Eighty independent candidates arrived at the National Assembly and then joined the SIC in an apparent attempt to claim seats reserved for women and minorities. However, the ECP refused to assign the seats to the party, a decision that the SIC challenged in the Supreme Court.
