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‘ECP’s errors forced PTI candidates to contest polls as independents’

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Qazi Faez Isa, the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), stated on Tuesday that if the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had conducted intraparty elections, all concerns would have been settled.
Remarks were made during a hearing on the Sunni Ittehad Council’s (a PTI ally) lawsuit against the denial of reserved seats for women and minorities by a 13-member bench of the entire court.
Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Munib Akhtar, Yahya Afridi, Aminuddin Khan, Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Ayesha Malik, Athar Minallah, Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, Shahid Waheed, Irfan Saadat Khan, and Naeem Akhtar Afghan make up the bench, which is led by Chief Justice Isa.
A “cascading series of errors of law” that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) made that “forced” PTI-backed candidates to dress as independents were brought to light by Justice Munib.

 

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