PML-N files Petition in Apex Court on Reserved Seats Case

On behalf of Muslim League-N, a review petition has been filed against the decision of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on reserved seats.

The PML-N also requested to issue a stay order on the decision of the Supreme Court on July 12.

The position adopted in the petition is that the decision of the Supreme Court is completely silent on a few points.

• Should the Sunni Ittehad Council get reserved seats? The decision is silent.
• Should such a party get reserved seats which has not submitted the list itself?
• Whether an independent candidate can join a party whose one winning candidate is not present in the assembly?
• Should the seats be left vacant or distributed among the parties that contested the elections?

The petition further says that Supreme Court heard a lot of points, but in the short judgment, there is silence on several important points. The case of specific seats was only to the extent of Sunni Ittehad Council, Tehreek-e-Insaaf did not have a case regarding reserved seats.

11 parties including Sunni Ittehad Council, Hamid Raza, Election Commission have been made parties in the petition.