PDM may file review petition against SC verdict: Sheikh Rasheed

LAHORE: Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed has claimed that the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) parties may file a review petition against the Supreme Court’s (SC) verdict on the election delay case, ARY News reported on Wednesday.

Sheikh Rasheed, while talking to the ARY News programme ‘The Reporters’ said that it will be the costliest election in the history of Pakistan.

He further said that the PDM leadership is mulling over filing a review petition on the SC verdict regarding the election date, however, this move will fall on their faces.

He added that PDM parties are trying to flee from the elections. Rasheed claimed that the political career of the PML-N has ended and Pakistanis are now firmly standing with PTI chief Imran Khan.

Earlier in the day, the federal government decided to bring another resolution in National Assembly (NA) against the Supreme Court’s (SC) verdict in the polls delaying the case, nullifying the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision to postpone the Punjab elections.

Addressing a meeting of leaders of all coalition parties, Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif said that with the recent decisions of the Supreme Court (SC), a mockery was being made with the constitution and laws of the country.

The prime minister referred to a decision of the three-judge bench of the Supreme Court over the holding of elections in two provinces and said that a mockery was being made with the constitution and law and the fate of the nation was being decided with strange decisions.