IHC Set to hear PTI-P’s petition against ECP notification today
PTI-P, under the leadership of Pervez Khattak, contends that the ECP unlawfully denied the party its rightful share of reserved seats by relying on what it claims is an inaccurate count of general seats won by PTI-P in the February 8 general elections.
In its plea, the party has requested the court to suspend the ECP notification, arguing that allowing the notified lawmakers to take oath and participate in assembly proceedings would result in "irreversible prejudice" and render the party’s main constitutional petition ineffective.
The PTI-P contends that the ECP’s March 4 notification erroneously recorded the party as having won only one general seat in KP, when in fact it had won two — PK-73 and PK-103.
This miscalculation, the party says, resulted in the loss of at least three reserved seats for women and non-Muslims that should have been allocated to PTI-P under the system of proportional representation.
Despite this discrepancy, the ECP went on to issue the July 2 notification allocating the reserved seats based on what PTI-P describes as a “fundamentally flawed” premise.
The dispute over the allocation of reserved seats had also been under review in the Peshawar High Court. The PHC had initially granted a stay on the oath-taking process on the petition filed by PTI-P.
However, during a subsequent hearing, a two-member PHC bench comprising Justices Syed Arshad Ali and Dr Khurshid Iqbal questioned how PTI-P could maintain litigation in PHC while a similar matter was pending before the IHC.
The PTI-P’s counsel, Advocate Sultan Mohammad Khan, later informed the court that the parliamentary leader Arbab Mohammad Waseem, who had filed the PHC petition, was unaware of the IHC proceedings.
Following this clarification, the PTI-P chose to withdraw its petition, and the PHC bench dismissed the plea and recalled the stay order granted on July 1.
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