Islamabad (Web Desk): After Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on Tuesday challenged the Supreme Court’s (SC) decision regarding allocation of reserved seats to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
Advocate Farooq H Naek, on behalf of the PPP, filed the review petition seeking to overturn the top court’s verdict of July 12 pertaining to reserved seats of women and non-Muslims.
In its appeal, the PPP objected to granting the reserved seats to the PTI, arguing that the former ruling party had not claimed any entitlement to them.
The SC's Practice and Procedure Committee has scheduled the hearing of the review petitions after the court holidays.
However, Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa, dissenting from the majority decision, argued that the summer holidays should be cancelled to address the review petitions promptly.
He emphasized that the Constitution should take precedence over the convenience of judges, stating that delaying the hearing would be unjust.
On July 12, the SC announced its that reserved seats be allocated to PTI, reversing previous rulings by the Peshawar High Court (PHC) and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and declaring that PTI is eligible for the reserved seats for women and minorities.