ECP, Sindh govt opposes MQM's petition against delimitation of constituencies.

ISLAMABAD -- Election Commission of Pakistan and the government of Sindh on Thursday opposed MQM's petition in the Supreme Court against the delimitation of constituencies for the second phase of local body elections.

A three-member SC bench comprising Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Munib Akhtar heard the case filed by Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and others against the Government of Sindh regarding delimitation of constituencies for the election of local bodies.

During the course of proceedings, MQM's counsel Barrister Farogh Naseem submitted that the population ratio was not kept uniform in constituencies.

The Chief Justice asked whether the Election Commission was satisfied with the delimitation of constituencies.

The ECP's DG Law said that the delimitation of constituencies was done in accordance with the law.

He said that the delimitation of constituencies was the job of the provincial government and Election Commission's duty was to hold elections.

The counsel for MQM said that a Union Committee consisted of 90,000 people where MQM was successful while a UC had a population of 40,000 in the areas where the PPP was successful.

Advocate Khalid Javed counsel for the PPP said that if this argument was accepted, the delimitation of constituencies of the national and provincial assemblies would end. Some constituencies of the National Assembly consisted of 300,000 and some 900,000 population, he added.

The Chief Justice said that the court would decide the case after hearing all the parties in

detail on August 15. The election was scheduled on August 28 so...