Final week, the PTI filed a miscellaneous software with the IHC asking the courtroom to droop the election schedule on 9 NA seats.
The ECP had introduced the schedule for by-elections on 9 NA seats that fell vacant after Speaker Nationwide Meeting Raja Pervaiz Ashraf accepted the resignations of 9 PTI MPAs.
Interim IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq heard the case on Wednesday. The courtroom requested if there’s any authorized floor for suspending the election schedule. The fee was advised that the seats have fallen vacant so that they have issued a schedule, it stated.
The lawyer representing the PTI stated that now we have been asking for by-elections since day 1. However we would like by-elections to be held on all 123 seats that the celebration MNAs have resigned from, he stated.
The courtroom, nevertheless, rejected the PTI’s request to right away droop the schedule for by-elections and issued discover to the ECP.
It adjourned the listening to until August 16 and requested the fee to submit a reply by then.