PTI Secretary-General Asad Umar, Adviser to Prime Minister forParliamentary Affairs Babar Awan, and advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique havefiled the review petition in the Supreme Court urging the top court torevoke its April 7 decision.
“The Supreme Court cannot dictate the timetable to the National Assemblyunder Article 69,” the petition said, as the government tries to avoidbeing ousted.
In line with the top court’s decision, the National Assembly session tovote on the no-confidence motion had been called today at 10:30am.
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The court’s historic order read: “In consequence of the foregoing, it isdeclared that at all material times the Prime Minister was under the barimposed by the Explanation to clause (1) of Article 58 of the Constitutionand continues to remain so restricted. He could not, therefore, have at anytime advised the President to dissolve the Assembly as contemplated byclause (1) of Article 58.”
