{"id":9054,"date":"2022-06-29T13:28:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9054"},"modified":"2022-06-29T13:28:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:28:34","slug":"lhc-adjourns-hearing-on-pleas-against-hamzas-election-as-cm-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/lhc-adjourns-hearing-on-pleas-against-hamzas-election-as-cm-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"LHC adjourns hearing on pleas against Hamza&#8217;s election as CM Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday adjourned the hearing on pleas against election of Hamza Shahbaz as Chief Minister of Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>A five member larger bench headed by Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan will resume the hearing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, the bench sought arguments from Hamza\u2019s lawyer that whether the Supreme Court\u2019s verdict on the presidential reference related to defecting lawmakers applies to past events.<\/p>\n<p>Hamza\u2019s counsel maintained that the ruling doesn\u2019t apply to past events unless the apex court itself says so.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pti-will-hold-biggest-public-gathering-on-july-2-in-islamabad-imran-khan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PTI will hold biggest public gathering on July 2 in Islamabad: Imran Khan<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a previous hearing the high court had hinted at holding fresh election for the post of Punjab\u2019s chief minister under April 16 circumstances, when incumbent Hamza Shahbaz was elected in a poll on a court order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday adjourned the hearing on pleas against election of Hamza Shahbaz as Chief Minister of Punjab. A five member larger bench headed by Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan will resume the hearing on Thursday. During the hearing, the bench sought arguments from Hamza\u2019s lawyer that whether the Supreme Court\u2019s verdict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[972,615,616,467,1200],"class_list":["post-9054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-hamza-shahbaz","tag-lahore-high-court","tag-lhc","tag-punjab-government","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}