Reserved seats: Govt censures delay in SC’s detailed verdict

Following up on the controversy surrounding the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) reserved seats, the federal government has called for a discussion on the two judges’ dissenting opinions and voiced concerns about the lengthy delay in the release of the Supreme Court’s July 12 ruling’s detailed verdict.
Speaking before the media in Lahore on Sunday, Federal Information Minister Attaullah Tarar stated, “Even after 15 days, the detailed verdict [of the July 12 verdict] hasn’t been issued.”

Justices Amin-Ud-Din Khan and Naeem Akhtar Afghan, who  were part of the entire court bench, wrote a 29-page dissenting note. Tarar stated that the problems presented in the note should be properly examined.
“It’s imperative that the points raised by the [two] judges are [duly] answered,” stated the minister.
The SIC did not run as a political party in the February 8 nationwide polls, but its chairman did participate in the election as an independent, according to the dissenting note of the aforementioned justices.
Additionally, they believed that the court “would have to travel beyond the jurisdiction conferred by Articles 175 and 185 of the Constitution” in order to create and carve out remedy for PTI in these proceedings.