CJP To Announce Decision On CM Punjab Election At 7:30pm.

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) said Tuesday that the Supreme Court will announce the verdict in the Punjab chief minister's election case at 7:30 pm.

The proceedings went on for three days - Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday - as lawyers from all the parties presented their arguments.

Pervez Elahi, who had been defeated by Hamza Shahbaz on July 22 after 10 PML-Q votes were rejected by Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly Dost Mazari, had challenged the deputy speaker's ruling in the SC.

The SC formed a three-member bench - headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial and including Justice Munib Akhtar and Justice Ijazul Ahsan - to hear the case, but the coalition government objected to...

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