CJP again asks Govt-PTI to hold talks and adjourns the hearing till May 23. Chief Justice of Pakistan once again asked the government and PTI to resume talks about the upcoming elections.
The CJP Umar Ata Bandial remarked this on Monday while heading a three-member bench, comprising Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan and Justice Munib Akhtar hearing the ECP’s plea to review the order of April 14 about elections in Punjab on May 14.
The Supreme Court adjourned the hearing of the case till May 23 (Tuesday) after issuing notices to the respondents in the case.
The respondents are the attorney general for Pakistan and advocate generals of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The CJP Umar Ata Bandial also asked the parties to give their arguments on the admissibility of the plea.
PTI’s lawyer Barrister Ali Zafar said, “The Constitution has been murdered and a faction of the country’s population of 100 million has been deprived of representation.”
The Chief Justice, however, adjourned the hearing saying that the court could not hear the case on an urgent basis keeping in view the situation (PDM sit-in) outside the Supreme Court.
PDM launches its protest in Islamabad
The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), the ruling alliance of a dozen of political
parties, today launched its protest in Islamabad by staging a sit-in outside
the Supreme Court building.
ML-N chief organizer Maryam Nawaz and PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman have joined the sit-in outside
the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
They are seen standing on the front side of the PDM’s
container, parked outside the Supreme Court building. The PDM leaders will
voice their concern against the judiciary’s special treatment of PTI chairman
Imran Khan.
JUI-F Ansarul Islam Force
The Ansarul-Islam force of the JUI-F popularly known as ‘Danda Force’ will
guard the sit-in of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) outside the Supreme
Court of Pakistan.
Hundreds of activists of Ansarul Islam have reached outside the Supreme
Court carrying batons (dandas) and they are guarding the sit-in.
