Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has distanced his party from the ruling coalition’s demand for a full court bench on the Punjab elections to delay the case.
Imran Khan tweeted that a larger bench hearing would not affect the cause. He stated that his party only wants to know if elections will be held within the 90-day constitutional provision.
Imran Khan claimed that the 90-day constitutional provision on the holding of elections was inviolable and that he had consulted his top legal experts before dissolving provincial assemblies in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
Imran Khan accused the PDM government and its alleged handlers of cherry-picking which articles of the Constitution to abide by and threatening Pakistan’s very foundation. He claimed they are so petrified of elections and desperate to whitewash their convicted leaders that they are prepared to destroy the Constitution and any semblance of the rule of law.
The Supreme Court’s five-member bench hearing PTI’s plea challenging the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to postpone the Punjab Assembly polls was dissolved after a member of the bench, Justice Aminuddin Khan, recused himself from hearing the petition.
A four-member bench excluding Justice Aminuddin, will take up the PTI’s petition on Friday at 11.30 am.
 Chairman Imran Khan says that he is not concerned about a full court bench on the Punjab elections delaying the case, citing that a larger bench hearing would make no difference to the cause.){kind=link}