*LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has dismissed a petition challengingPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s decision to contestelections on all nine vacant seats of the National Assembly (NA). *
According to details, Justice Shahid Jamil Khan of the Lahore High Court(LHC) heard the petition challenging former prime minister Imran Khan’sdecision to contest by-elections on all nine vacant seatslink of the National Assembly (NA).
During the proceedings, Justice Shahid Khan asked whether the nominationpapers had been submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP)office. To which the counsel representing the petitioner replied innegative.
Terming the matter ‘immature’, the court said the petitioner should waituntil the submission of the nomination papers and then file his objectionwith the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) first and then approach thecourts.
The petitioner’s counsel, after observing the court’s vision, decided towithdraw the petition. Subsequently, Justice Khan dismissed the petitionafter the counsel withdrew it.
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The petitioner, Mian Asif Mehmood, Punjab president of the Amun TaraqqiParty, had requested the court to restrain the PTI chairman from contestingthe by-elections on all nine seats in the “interest of the country”.
It is pertinent to mention here that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)Chairman Imran Khan announcedlinktocontest by-polls from all nine seats, vacated after the NA speaker acceptedPTI MNAs’ resignation.
According to the ECP schedulelink, theby-polls on the nine National Assembly seats would be contested onSeptember 25.
