Islamabad, Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday awarded reserved seats to an ally of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a much-awaited ruling on the issue of sharing of reserved seats for women and minorities among political parties.
The Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) had filed an appeal challenging the decision of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) upholding the decision of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to deny its participation in the reserved seats in the National Assembly and the assemblies. provincial.
A 13-member full bench headed by Chief Justice Isa and comprising Justices Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Munib Akhtar, Yahya Afridi, Aminuddin Khan, Jamal Mandokhail, Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Ayesha Malik, Athar Minallah, Syed Hasan Rizvi, Shahid Waheed and Irfan Saadat. Khan and Naeem Akhtar Afghan heard the case.
Chief Justice Isa had announced after Tuesday's proceedings that the panel decided to reserve the verdict for mutual consultation, as he announced on Friday.
A majority of eight judges ruled in favor of the SIC by overturning the ruling of the Peshawar High Court.
The sentence was announced by Judge Mansoor Ali Shah.
Earlier, after concluding the hearing on Tuesday, the 13 judges spent two days in mutual consultation before announcing the verdict.
Initially, the court announced that a three-member regular court headed by the Chief Justice would announce the verdict at 9 am, but soon after, the timing was changed and the court announcing the verdict was changed when it was announced that on the 13th - original. The members' court would issue the ruling at noon.
The dispute over the reserved seats was related to the ECP's rejection of a request by the SIC to grant its share in the 70 reserved seats in the National Assembly and another 156 in the four provincial assemblies.
Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ( ) could not participate in the February 8 elections as the ECP rejected its intra-party elections and deprived it of the bat symbol to participate in the elections as a party.
He was therefore ineligible to claim the seats reserved for women and minorities that are awarded to winning parties on the basis of proportional representation.
Thus, the leaders asked their candidates, who had won independently but with the support of , to join an SIC to form a parliamentary party that would claim reserved seats.
The Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) had filed an appeal challenging the decision of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) upholding the decision of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to deny its participation in the reserved seats in the National Assembly and the assemblies. provincial.
A 13-member full bench headed by Chief Justice Isa and comprising Justices Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Munib Akhtar, Yahya Afridi, Aminuddin Khan, Jamal Mandokhail, Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Ayesha Malik, Athar Minallah, Syed Hasan Rizvi, Shahid Waheed and Irfan Saadat. Khan and Naeem Akhtar Afghan heard the case.
Chief Justice Isa had announced after Tuesday's proceedings that the panel decided to reserve the verdict for mutual consultation, as he announced on Friday.
A majority of eight judges ruled in favor of the SIC by overturning the ruling of the Peshawar High Court.
The sentence was announced by Judge Mansoor Ali Shah.
Earlier, after concluding the hearing on Tuesday, the 13 judges spent two days in mutual consultation before announcing the verdict.
Initially, the court announced that a three-member regular court headed by the Chief Justice would announce the verdict at 9 am, but soon after, the timing was changed and the court announcing the verdict was changed when it was announced that on the 13th - original. The members' court would issue the ruling at noon.
The dispute over the reserved seats was related to the ECP's rejection of a request by the SIC to grant its share in the 70 reserved seats in the National Assembly and another 156 in the four provincial assemblies.
Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ( ) could not participate in the February 8 elections as the ECP rejected its intra-party elections and deprived it of the bat symbol to participate in the elections as a party.
He was therefore ineligible to claim the seats reserved for women and minorities that are awarded to winning parties on the basis of proportional representation.
Thus, the leaders asked their candidates, who had won independently but with the support of , to join an SIC to form a parliamentary party that would claim reserved seats.
