ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa questioned on Monday why the party “committed suicide” by deciding to combine with the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) after the polls on February 8.
The PTI ally, the SIC, filed a challenge against the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) ruling that allocated seats for women and minorities in the national and provincial parliament. The CJP made these comments during the hearing of the lawsuit.
Judge Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Muneeb Akhtar, Justice Yahya Afridi, Justice Amin-ud-din Khan, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Ayesha A Malik, Justice Athar Minallah, Justice Syed Hassan Azhar Rizvi, Justice Shahid Waheed, and Justice Irfan make up the full court’s 13-member bench, which is led by Chief Justice Picha Isa.
“Considering that PTI is a political party, why did the independent candidates depart? Why did you join a different party that contradicts your beliefs and commit suicide? inquired of the Chief Justice.
The CJP claimed that there wouldn’t be a problem today if the independent candidates had stayed with the PTI.
The Supreme Court announced after today’s proceedings that Salman Akram Raja, the attorney for PTI leader Kanwal Shuzab, and Faisal Siddiqui, the attorney for the SIC, had finished their arguments.
