The ruling by the Supreme Court on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) reserved seats does not present a threat to the current coalition government, according to Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar.
The minister declared, “We still have a majority of 209 members and the verdict has not been completed yet,” following the top court’s decision to grant the PTI reserved seats.
Given that the federal cabinet, not a minister, had the authority to file a review petition against the ruling, Tarar expressed uncertainty about whether the government would do so.
The development follows the Supreme Court’s announcement of an 8–5 majority ruling that overturned a Peshawar High Court (PHC) order upholding the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision to deny the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) reserved seats.
Mansoor Ali Shah, Athar Minallah, Shahid Waheed, Muneeb Akhtar, Muhammad Ali Mazhar Ayesha Malik, Syed Hassan Azhar Rizvi, and Irfan Saadat Khan were among the justices who endorsed the verdict.
The PTI candidates were forced to collaborate with the SIC after failing to challenge the polls on a single electoral symbol. However, this did not help them win the reserved seats, as the ECP decided against them.
