Court seeks govt reply to plea against 'Azadi march'.

Lahore -- The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday sought reply from the government to a petition filed against proposed 'Azadi March' of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) in a week.

Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti of the Lahore High Court (LHC) took up the case against the proposed sit-in and protests in Islamabad.

The court also sought details regarding Faz's anti-government force.

The court was told that a constitutional government could not be abolished without completing five years. Abolishing the government unconstitutionally will be violation of Article 17 A-2.

The writ petition was a day earlier filed submitting that elected government could not be dissolved before completion of its five-year constitutional tenure.

The petition further submits that JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman has established a private army to protect the protest/sit-in. It requests to the court that the JUI-F activists' private army be stopped from holding illegal sit-in in the federal...