*LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday has directed PML-Q leaderKamil Agha to reach out to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)against the latter’s decision to retain Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain aspresident of the party. *
The LHC asked the PML-Q leader to reach out to the ECP as they have enoughpowers to deal with the issue. “Looking into election related issues is notthe prerogative of the courts,” Justice Shahid Karim said.
The court wrapped uplinkthecase after the petitioner agreed to reach out to the commission.
It is pertinent to mention here that Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) leaderKamil Ali Agha has moved a petition before the Lahore High Court (LHC),seeking a stay on a decision from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)to halt intra-party polls to elect the new president and general secretary.
He filed the petition before the LHC through his counsel Safdar Shaheen.
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He said in his plea that party head Chaudhry Shujaat wrote a letterlink to deputy speaker during election forCM Punjab which was based on illegal directives. “The working committeetermed the directives from Chaudhry Shujaat as non-democratic act anddecided to remove him from the slot,” he said.
The plea stated that the ECP suspended the decision to hold intra-partypolls citing no meeting of the central executive committee. “If theirargument is accepted then how Shujaat could remain party head?” he asked.
