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Last March, the Sunni Ittehad Council had filed a petition in the Supreme Court demanding that 77 seats for women and minorities that were originally allocated to PM Shahbaz Sharif's ruling coalition after the February 8 elections be reallocated to the coalition. However, both the Peshawar High Court and the Election Commission of Pakistan in separate judgments rejected the council's appeal and declared it ineligible for the reserved seats.
In April, the council filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the decision. In which the party president said that the decision of the High Court was sought to be repealed. In this petition, the decision of the High Court was sought to be repealed. After this, on May 6, the Supreme Court repealed the March 14 decision of the Election Commission in which the SIC was deprived of the seats reserved for women and minorities.
Pakistan's Supreme Court overturned the High Court's decision
While the Attorney General of Pakistan said that under Section 4 of the Supreme Court Act-2023, the current cases should be heard by a larger bench. Therefore, the Supreme Court ordered the Verma petitions to be placed before a committee of three judges. Which can reconstitute a larger bench.
After this, the Election Commission of Pakistan cancelled the notification of victory of 77 members of the National and Provincial Assemblies elected on those seats. But now the High Court has rejected the decision of the High Court in its decision on Friday. He also declared the decision of the Election Commission invalid and said that it is against the Constitution of Pakistan. This was announced.
Shahbaz Sharif alliance still far from majority
The expelled lawmakers include 44 from PML-N, 15 from PPP, 13 from JUI-F, one each from PML-Q, IPP, PTI-P and ANP. Now after the new decision, the ruling coalition lawmakers have lost their two-third majority in the lower house, which has come down from 228 to 209 against the magic figure of 224 for a two-third majority in the 336-member House.