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Pakistans election commission on Tuesday held an open hearing on a petition by jailed former prime minister Imran Khans party-backed Sunni Ittehad Council, seeking the allocation of its share of reserved seats, according to a media report...
Candidates of 71-year-old Khans Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) fought as independents after the party could not directly participate in the February 8 elections due to the non-allotment of its iconic electoral symbol the cricket bat...
To receive the PTIs share of reserved seats for women and minorities in the national and provincial assemblies, the winning independent candidates backed by the party joined the right wing Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) an alliance of Islamic political and religious parties in the Muslim-majority country which represents followers of the school of Sunni Islam...
A five-member bench of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday held an open hearing on the SICs plea, seeking allocation of reserved seats and the counter-pleas filed against it, the Dawn newspaper reported...
The bench, headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja, heard petitions by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawazs Azam Nazeer Tarar, Pakistan Peoples Partys Farooq Naik and PTI-backed SICs counsel Gohar Khan and Ali Zafar, before adjourning the hearing till Wednesday...
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