ISLAMABAD, June 14(ABC): PTI on Tuesday challenged the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) verdict on the reserved seats of the Punjab Assembly for women in the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
On June 2, 2022, the ECP ruled that the allocation of reserved seats — three women and two minorities — would be notified after the conclusion of the by-election for 20 vacant Punjab Assembly seats.
PTI General Secretary Asad Umar filed the petition, stating that the ECP’s verdict of June 2 is against the law.
“The ECP issued a verdict to de-notify 25 dissidents of PTI. Uzma Kardar, Sajid Yousuf and Aisha Nawaz were also de-notified under the verdict,” the petition states.
The politician maintained that a notification is supposed to be issued for the reserved seats as per the party’s priority list but the ECP stopped the notification till the by-election on 20 seats. He contended that ECP is responsible for issuing this notification.
