ISLAMABAD: The federal minister for information Attaullah Tarar has criticized Supreme Court’s verdict that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf eligible for reserve seats.
Talking to newsmen in Lahore today, he said all doors of flour crossing should be close. Raising concerns over setting up of a retrogressive precedent, he said eliminations of all legal lacunas were necessary to flourish democracy in the country.
The minister’s remarks refer to the apex court’s last month’s ruling wherein it had declared the PTI eligible for reserved seats of women and minorities in the assemblies after overturning the decisions of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)
The ruling not only paved the way for the Imran Khan-founded party’s return to the parliament but also effectively deprived the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led coalition government of its two-thirds majority in the National Assembly.
Since the top court’s ruling, the ECP has notified 39 out of 80 Members of the National Assembly (MNAs) as PTI members along with 93 lawmakers in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh assemblies as “returned candidates” of the former ruling party.
