LHC sustains objection to plea to stop PA dissolution.

LAHORE -- The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday sustained an office objection to a petition seeking directions to stop the dissolution of Punjab Assembly. The LHC registrar office had objected to the maintainability of the petition, saying that the petitioner was not an aggrieved person and had not attached a verified copy of summary for the dissolution of the assembly with the petition. Justice Shahid Karim took up the petition as an objection case and sustained the objection after hearing arguments of the petitioner-counsel. Advocate Salman Khalid had filed the petition, saying that Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi signed the summary for the dissolution of the Punjab Assembly on the behest of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan. He submitted that...

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