LAHORE – Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman on Thursday told the Lahore HighCourt (LHC) that he was not liable to announce a date for the elections,arguing he has not dissolved the provincial assembly.
The governor stated this in a reply to a petition filed by a citizen MunirAhmed against him for not announcing the election date after thedissolution of the assembly.
“It is emphatically denied that the answering respondent No 1 was in anymanner obligated to appoint the date of elections when he has neverdissolved the Assembly while acting on the so-called advice of the ChiefMinister,” the governor state in its eight-page reply to the LHC.
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He also rejected an impression that his move is creating any hurdles in theway of ECP to discharge its duties, calling the allegations “fallacious”.
