[🇵🇰] Pakistan General Elections -- 2024

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PHC bars oath-taking of lawmakers on reserved seats denied to SIC till tomorrow​

The Peshawar High Court has barred MNAs-elect, notified on reserved seats denied to the Sunni Ittehad Council, from taking oath until tomorrow.
The directive was issued on a petition filed by the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) — the new home of the PTI — against the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to reject the allocation of reserved seats to the party.
The SIC plea was taken up by a two-member PHC bench today. The court issued a pre-admission notice to the ECP and directed it to submit its response in the case. It also halted the oath-taking of lawmakers until tomorrow.
The bench further referred the case to the PHC chief justice for the formation of a larger bench.
It must be noted that the National Assembly is set to convene tomorrow and lawmakers on reserved women and minority seats are expected to be sworn in.

 

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PPP seeks applications for Senate elections from party candidates​

The PPP has sought applications from its party leaders aspiring for its ticket for the upcoming Senate elections.

In a post on X, the PPP said leader Nayyar Hussain Bukhari has sought the applications by March 10 for federal and provincial Senate seats.

It also directed the candidates to submit a bank draft of Rs100,000 along with the applications.

 

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Sunni Ittehad Council moves PHC for allocation of reserved seats​

The Sunni Ittehad Council — new home of the PTI — has filed a petition in Peshawar High Court (PHC) against the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to reject the allocation of reserved seats to the party.
In its plea, the SIC prayed that the ECP’s verdict be set aside and the party be given its “due right” to reserved seats in the national and provincial assemblies.
The petition has been fixed for hearing and will be taken up by a two-member bench comprising Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim and Justice Shakeel Ahmed

 

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Dialogue with Imran mandatory, says Elahi​

PTI president claims that his party’s candidates lost the Feb 8 polls due to the alleged tampering of Form 45

Our Correspondent
March 06, 2024

Former Punjab CM Parvez Elahi. SCREENGRAB

ISLAMABAD: Citing the formation of “fake cases” and underlining the necessity of “return of PTI’s real mandate”, party’s Central President Parvez Elahi has emphasised that the government’s “proposal for reconciliation” holds no significance.

Talking to media after appearing before the anti-corruption court, the PTI president claimed that his party’s candidates lost the Feb 8 polls due to the alleged tampering of Form 45.

“The country is being pushed towards a dire crisis by disregarding the public mandate. The election commission has reached the ‘height of cruelty and injustice’ by allocating our reserved seats to the Pakistan Democratic Movement,” he said.

The PTI leader stressed that the only way to steer the country of the current crisis was to hold “direct and meaningful dialogue” with Imran Khan.
“Government’s offer for reconciliation holds no meaning [in the wake of] fabricated cases and until the return of PTI’s real mandate.”

 

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PHC extends bar on oath-taking of reserved seats MNAs till March 13​

5-member larger bench takes up joint plea of PTI, SIC; summons AGP Awan again at next hearing.

 

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Army commands respect as defender, not decision-maker: Fazl​

The Newspaper's Staff Reporter
March 7, 2024

LAHORE: “I don’t accept this electoral mandate and I hold those responsible who have done it, not those for whom it was done,” said chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, here on Wednesday.

Inaugurating lawyers’ wing of his party, he insists if the establishment sabotages the electoral process and interferes in the democratic procedures, resolutions of Corps Commanders’ Conference cannot deter criticism of it. The army as a defender of Pakistan is respected, but not as a political decision-maker.

Berating the judiciary, he wonders how can this judicial system accept 100 cases in a week’s time against a person fallen out of favour of the military establishment and decide in favour of another 100 against a person, who has won favour of the army?

 

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Perturbed at audio leaks, MQM-P dissolves key decision-making body​

Imran Ayub
March 7, 2024

• Forms seven-member ad-hoc committee to run party affairs
• No decision yet on whether to support Asif Zardari in presidential election

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) on Wednesday dissolved its top decision-making forum known as coordination committee a week after it claimed that the party had found “someone from MQM-London”, who had sneaked into its ranks and was working for its founder Altaf Hussain, when audio clips of its senior leaders were leaked turning the spotlight on the party.

It formed a seven-member ad-hoc committee with Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui as convener and Mustafa Kamal, Dr Farooq Sattar, Nasreen Jalil, Anis Qaimkhani, Kaiful Wara and Rizwan Babar as its members.

It all came up last week when audio clips of senior party leaders Mustafa Kamal and Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori got leaked on social media one after another giving strength to the impression of alleged rigging in general elections