Imran challenges law allowing Sharif to become PML-N chief
- 06-Nov-2017
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Monday approached the Supreme Court, challenging the Electoral Reforms Act 2017. The PTI chief filed a petition through his counsel, assailing the controversial law, a clause of which allows a person ineligible to be member of parliament to head a political party. The petition states the top […]
Sheikh Rasheed challenges Nawaz Sharif’s election as PML-N chief
- 04-Oct-2017
ISLAMABAD: Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed on Wednesday filed a petition in the Supreme Court questioning a clause of Election Bill 2017 which allows a person ineligible to be member of parliament to hold political party’s office. The AML chief pleaded with the court to strike down the 203 clause of the Electoral […]
LHC seeks details of Electoral Reforms Act petition pending in Supreme Court
- 04-Oct-2017
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday put off the hearing of Pakistan Awami Tehreek’s (PAT) petition against the Electoral Reforms Act 2017 under which a disqualified person can hold a party’s office. The bench headed by Chief Justice Mansoor Ali Shah adjourned the case after a provincial law officer informed it that an identical petition […]
Controversial Electoral Reforms Act challenged in LHC
- 03-Oct-2017
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) has challenged the Electoral Reforms Act 2017 in Lahore High Court (LHC) under which a disqualified person can hold a party’s office. Earlier, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Muttahida Qaumi Movement had challenged the legislation in Sindh High Court. Ishtiaq Chaudhry of PAT in his petition filed in LHC said that under […]