IHC defers Imran's plea hearing to withdraw petition challenging verdict.

Peshawar -- The Islamabad high Court (IhC) on Thursday deferred the hearing in chairman pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (pTI) Imran Khan's plea to withdraw his petition challenging the election Commission of pakistan's (eCp) verdict in the Toshakhana reference. a single bench of the IhC comprising Chief Justice of IhC Justice aamer Farooq conducted hearing of a petition filed by PTI chairman Imran Khan through his counsel Barrister ali Zafar. During the hearing, pTI chief's counsel informed the court that the matter is already pending before the Lahore high Court (LhC) so he wanted to withdraw the petition. Justice aamer remarked that the other side has some objections, and the court will listen to that first. Then, he directed to club the miscellaneous application of pTI's chief with his main case. he said that the court would hear the petitions together as other respondents would also be in attendance on next hearing. Later, the IhC bench adjourned the hearing in this case till January 25 for further proceedings. Earlier, the PTI chief filed an application to withdraw his petition from the Islamabad high Court (IhC) due to his pending petition in the Lahore high Court (LhC) against the Toshakhana (gift depository) reference decision. In, the miscellaneous application, he adopted the stance that the LhC had constituted a full bench on the petition against the eCp's Toshakhana decision. It said that the eCp's October 21 verdict had been challenged in the LhC along with the eCp's move to strip Imran of party chairmanship. The application said that the LhC full bench would examine all the legal aspects related to both the petitions. previously, Khan's counsel Barrister ali Zafar made the submission that it is bizarre that the election Commission of Pakistan ECP) disqualified him for the assets that he legally purchased and lawfully sold. The counsel adopted the stance before the bench that Imran was elected as MNa from Na-95 Mianwali in July 2018 but, through an illegal order of election Commission of pakistan (eCp) dated 21/10/2022, ECP disqualified him from this seat under Article 63(1)(p) of the Constitution. The decision of the speaker to send...