Party Head Will Also Have To Listen To Parliamentary Party's Opinion: CJP.

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial, while hearing a petition related to the recently held Punjab chief minister's re-election, remarked on Monday that the party head 'will also have to listen to the parliamentary party's opinion'.

He made the remarks during the hearing of a petition filed by PML-Q leader Chaudhry Parvez Elahi challenging Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Dost Mohammad Mazari's decision in the chief minister's re-election last week, which led to Hamza Shahbaz's victory.

During the re-election, Mazari had decided against counting the votes of 10 PML-Q lawmakers, which were cast in Elahi's...

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