The hearing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sher Afzal Marwat's petition against the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was indefinitely postponed today after his lawyer requested an adjournment.According to the channel report, Marwat's counsel informed the court that they had received the notice of the hearing late last night.

On this, Justice Jamal Mandokhail remarked, “We are giving you time; come prepared for the next hearing.” Last month, on December 12, the constitutional bench had ordered the scheduling of Sher Afzal Marwat’s application for hearing after the holidays. 

The PTI's petition, seeking a judicial inquiry into alleged election rigging, also requested the suspension of all actions related to forming governments at the federal and Punjab levels until the findings of the judicial commission were made public. The petition emphasised that depriving a political party with elected members in national and provincial assemblies of their proportional reserved seats is a violation of Article 51 and Article 106 of the Constitution.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)