The Islamabad High Court (IHC) stayed the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) order to denotify Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) legislators Asad Umar, Ali Nawaz Awan, and Raja Khurram Shahbaz Nawaz.
National Assembly (NA) Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf accepted the PTI lawmakers’ resignations en masse following Imran Khan’s removal as prime minister last year.
However, the three PTI leaders filed a petition contesting the ECP’s notification.
Chief Justice Aamer Farooq of the IHC heard the case. Ali Zafar represented the three PTI leaders in court: Umar, Awan, and Nawaz.
The court prohibited the ECP from conducting by-elections in Islamabad and suspended Speaker Pervaiz Ashraf’s notification accepting the lawmakers’ resignations.
The PTI members had argued in the appeal that all 123 members’ resignations should have been accepted, and all should have been deseated. Still, the ECP had only accepted the resignations of a few party leaders’ resignations in the notification released on January 17.
The Lahore High Court (LHC) had already halted the holding of by-elections in those constituencies and postponed the ECP’s order denotifying 43 PTI MNAs.
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