PTI challenges ECP schedule for by-elections

PTI lawyer Faisal Chaudhry filed a miscellaneous software with the Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC), requesting the excessive court docket to droop the election schedule.

It has been acknowledged within the software filed {that a} petition is presently pending in opposition to the acceptance of 9 PTI leaders’ resignations in a phased method.

The plea additional referred to as for the ECP’s schedule, issued on August 5, to be suspended.

Furthermore, the get together requested that until a choice is reached within the PTI’s predominant case, the election schedule ought to stay suspended.

Hours after the ECP introduced the schedule for the by-elections, PTI chief Imran Khan determined to contest alone on all 9 seats that fell vacant after the Nationwide Meeting speaker accepted the resignations of his get together’s lawmakers.

As per the ECP’s schedule the by-polls within the constituencies will likely be held on September 25.