PTI moves IHC against Senate chairman, deputy chairman elections

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) challenged the election of the chairman and deputy chairman Senate in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday.

Five PTI senators have filed a plea in IHC seeking postponement of the election of chairman and deputy chairman senate. The petition stated that the current electoral college is incomplete and therefore ‘unconstitutional’ to hold Senate Chairman and Deputy Chairman elections as Senate polls were postponed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).

The party urged the court to postpone the polls in the upper house of Parliament till the election on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Senate seats.

PTI has also filed a request in the Senate Secretariat against the Senate chairman and deputy chairman polls. The petitions were filed by PTI Senators Falak Naz Chitrali, Saif Abroo, Zarqa Taimur, Fozia Arshad, and Saifullah Niazi.

However, the IHC Registrar’s Office has raised objections to the petition filed by PTI. The Registrar’s Office maintained that KP’s Senate seat case is already under proceeding at Peshawar High Court (PHC). “For the election of the K-P senate seats, the PHC should be approached,” IHC observed.

Earlier, PTI’s political committee decided to boycott the election of the chairman and deputy chairman Senate. PTI has termed the elections unconstitutional. According to the core committee sources, the upper house of the Parliament was incomplete and the election of the chairman and deputy chairman was unconstitutional.

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