'Election delayed is election denied': Bilawal reiterates call for polls at earliest.

ISLAMABAD -- Despite the Supreme Court's dismissal of the possibility of holding the general elections in the 90-day period defined by the Constitution, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari reiterated his demand for the polls at the earliest, saying that delaying the election is to deny them.

"The elections delayed are election denied," Bilawal said while addressing the celebration of the golden jubilee of the Constitution of Pakistan in an event organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Monday.

Bilawal, the former foreign minister, once again sought the election schedule and provision of a "level playing field" for all the political parties.

Recalling the lawyers' movement of 2009 for the restoration of the judiciary, he said it was a seminal incident in the history of Pakistan's judiciary that had a profound impact on the relations between the judiciary and parliament.

Without naming him, Bilawal quoted a leading lawyer and member of the movement for the restoration of the former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, as saying that "the 2009 restoration of the judiciary as a result of public pressure had resulted in judges prone to arrogance and a bar prone to violence".

The former minister further said that in the 2013 general election, the judiciary under Chaudhry became a partisan actor with clear favourites in the polls, and the same happened in...