PTI moves SC against Punjab election delay.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) filed a constitutional petition in the Supreme Court against delay in elections in Punjab. PTI leaders Asad Umar and Mian Mahmoodur Rashid, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani and Punjab Assembly Speaker Mohammad Sibtain Khan have filed the joint petition. They have made Election Commission of Pakistan, federal government, Punjab and KP governments and others respondents in the case. The party maintained in the petition that the ECP's order "is in violation of the Constitution as well as the judgement of the apex court order". The petition added that the party has approached the SC as "the matter involved in the petition is of public importance with reference to enforcement of fundamental rights of the millions of people of Pakistan,

particularly the people of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P)". In a surprising development, the electoral watchdog earlier this week delayed the election in Punjab until October 8 on the grounds that it could not conduct transparent and peaceful polls on the scheduled date of April 30. It said that the elections could not be held in Punjab under the circumstances conveyed to it by the law-enforcement agencies, finance...

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