• LHC suspends ECP denotification order of PTI MNAs
• The court directed the parties to respond on March 7
• Also to stop by-elections in constituencies of Punjab

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday suspended the orders of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) that de-notified the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNAs who resigned en masse last year.

As per details, Justice Shahid Karim heard the PTI plea today and issued notices to ECP, Speaker NA and others to respond by March 7 in this regard.

During the hearing, the Lahore High Court suspended the Election Commission’s notification to de-notify the MNAs of Punjab and also ordered to stop the by-elections in the respective constituencies of Punjab.

Earlier, Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervez Ashraf accepted the resignations of 34 PTI lawmakers on January 17 and 35 MNAs on January 20.

Later, Riaz Fatyana and 42 other MNAs whose resignations were “accepted by the NA Speaker Ashraf on January 22” had filed a petition challenging the decisions of the NA speaker and the ECP.

It was submitted that the speaker did not listen to the position of the members before accepting the resignation, the notification of the Election Commission to de-notify the members of the assembly should be declared null and void.

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