PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has issued a 30-page detailed verdict in the case filed by the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) about allotment of reserved seats and dismissed the plea of SIC.
A five-member bench of the Peshawar High Court announced a brief verdict on March 14 while the verdict was written by Justice SM Atiq Shah.
The PHC maintained that it had the authority to hear cases of reserved seats at the provincial level, saying that the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision to allocated reserved seats to other parties was as per Article 51 of the Constitution of Pakistan.
It further said that the Sunni Ittehad Council was not entitled to reserved seat for women as the party had submitted a list after the prescribed time.
