SHC again issues notice to Faisal Vawda.

KARACHI -- The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday once again issued a notice to Federal Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda on a petition seeking his disqualification.

A law officer of the Election Commission of Pakistan informed the two-judge bench headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar that an identical petition against the federal minister was also pending before the ECP, which is scheduled to be heard on Tuesday, March 10.

The bench was also informed that no representative had shown up on behalf of Mr Vawda despite being put on notice at the last hearing, following which the bench once again issued a notice to the federal minister and adjourned the matter with an observation to let the ECP hear the petition pending before it at the upcoming hearing.

Advocate Qadir Khan Mandokhail, who contested the 2018 general election on a PPP ticket from NA-249 Karachi against Mr Vawda, filed a petition before the SHC in which he contended that the minister was a...