PML-N Challenges PA Speaker's Election In LHC.

LAHORE -- The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday, challenging election of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's Sibtain Khan as the Punjab Assembly Speaker.

PML-N's Saiful Malook Khokhar and another MPA filed the petition through Advocate Usman Mansoor, wherein newly-elected Speaker and others are made the respondents. The petitioners submitted that the legal requirements were not fulfilled during the election process. They submitted that as per rules, it was mandatory to hold the election of the speaker through secret ballot, and it was a violation of law and Constitution to put serial number on ballot papers.

'Serial number on ballot papers'

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