Supreme Court moved against delay in general elections
SC to hear Jaranwala incident on August 22,
ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday constituted a three-member bench to hear the petitions filed by the PTI chairman against the Islamabad High Court’s ruling in the Toshakhana case.
The bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Mazahar Akbar Naqvi and Justice Jamal Mandokhel will hear the case on August 23 (Wednesday).
The former premier has challenged the IHC decision of remanding back the Toshakhana case to the trial court to decide on its admissibility.
On August 3, the IHC again remanded the Toshakhana case against the PTI chief to the trial court to decide on its maintainability by invalidating its previous decision.
IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq had issued the ruling on a set of petitions filed by the former prime minister challenging the admissibility of the case, jurisdiction of the court and other aspects of the case.
The high court has rejected a petition of the PTI chief, seeking transfer of the case to another court, as it ruled that Additional Sessions Judge Humayun Dilawar will continue to hear the case.
This was the third time that the IHC has remanded the case to the trial court to decide on the admissibility as the latter had twice declared it maintainable.
Subsequently, the trial court sentenced the former primer to jail for three years after finding him guilty of not declaring the gifts he had retained from the state depository in the assets declarations submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
The PTI chief is currently serving his jail term at the Attock jail with petitions against the conviction pending with the high court.
Earlier,
SC has been moved against delay in general elections on census 2023,
As per details, the petition was filed by President of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Abid Zuberi against the delay in the general election after the completion of delimitation process.
Earlier, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) stated that they will move court if the upcoming general elections are delayed.The ECP stated that the commission is bound to carry out the delimitation process. The first publication will be on October 9 while the final publication will be on December 14.
The meeting decided to seek assistance from the provincial governments and the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) in the delimitation process.
The administrative measures will be completed by August 31 whereas the delimitation will be carried out across the country from September 8 to October 7.
Delimitation committees will be constituted on August 21 and the complaint regarding the delimitations can be submitted to the from October 10 to November 8. The ECP has allotted four months for the delimitation process.
PPP leader Faisal Karim Kundi said that PPP does not accept the ECP decision regarding the schedule of delimitations and delay in general elections is not acceptable
It is pertinent to mention here that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had announced that general elections are not possible within 90 days. As per details, the Election Commission of Pakistan decided to hold the upcoming general election on the census 2023.
While,
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has fixed hearing an appeal related to the Jaranwala incident for tomorrow (Tuesday)
The Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Atta Bandial has constituted a bench for the hearing.
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Umar Atta Bandial will hold the hearing tomorrow (August 22).
Justice Athar Minnullah and Justice Shahid Waheed are part of the bench. The Supreme Court issued notices to the concerned parties in this regard.
This development comes after a petition moved in the Supreme Court demanding action over the Jaranwala tragedy in which 20 churches and dozens of homes belonging to the Christian community were ransacked.
The single-page application was moved by the Voice of Christians International (VCI) under Order 33 Rule 6 of the Supreme Court Rules 1980.
VCI Director for Human Rights Samuel urged the top court to act against the culprits involved in the unfortunate incident.
“The churches, Holy Bibles, and residences of the Christian community were burnt on Aug 16 in the gruesome incident,” said the applicant.
He added that a case related to the implementation of a 2014 judgment regarding minorities’ rights was also pending with the apex court.
The Supreme Court gave a ruling in 2014 that law enforcement agencies would register criminal cases for desecrating the places of worship of minorities or violating of any of their rights guaranteed under the law.
The federal government was also asked to ensure that hate speech was discouraged on social media, according to the SC verdict.
It was also directed in the 32-page judgment that a national council for minority rights must be formed.
The verdict had come on suo motu notice taken in September 2013 over the Peshawar church bomb attack which claimed 81 lives.
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