Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday rejected the government plea to suspend the ECP notice to PM stopping him to attend election campaign rallies.
Justice Amir Farooq hearing the government petition for suspending the ECP notice regarding stoping the public office holder to participate in election campaign rallies.
Justice Amir Farooq sadi that the petitioner neither has a copy of the code of conduct nor date of next appearance of Imran Khan and Asad Umar before the commission.
While giving his argument, the prime minister’s counsel Syed Ali Zafar quoted new amended ordinance and said that the under the fresh law, the public office holder could attend gatherings ahead of polls.
To this, the judge said that the prime minister should have responded to the notice from the ECP. “This government has become an ordinance factory and is bypassing the Parliamentary procedure,” he said and added that the prime minister should respect the institutions.
The high court while rejecting a plea to issue stay order against the ECP order issued notices to Election Commission, cabinet division, attorney general of Pakistan for the next hearing on March 28.
