LAHORE: Azma Bokhari, the Punjab Minister for Information, attacked the Supreme Court’s decision in the reserved seats case on Saturday, claiming it established a “super” doctrine of necessity.
During a heated press conference in Lahore, Bokhari stated that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) received a relief from the supreme court judgment that it had not even requested.
She said, “Nations always suffered loss because of the doctrine of necessity,” and said that Pakistan had endured harm due of its love for the kid with the blue eyes.
The PTI did not even request the reserved seats (for itself) in the plea, yet they were nonetheless given them at no cost. Why does everyone love parties so much? Relief is given to the ladla (blue-eyed boy), even if he doesn’t ask for it.
The PTI won a significant legal battle on Friday when the Supreme Court decided that the party is entitled to the allotment of reserved seats.
The ruling has not only made it possible for the PTI, which was disqualified from the polls on February 8 due to the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) December 2023 order, to return to the parliament.
The whole bench of the Supreme Court, led by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, announced the 8–5 majority ruling that overturned the PHC’s order upholding the ECP’s decision to deny the PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) the reserved seats.
Justices Shah, Munib Akhtar, Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Ayesha A. Malik, Athar Minallah, Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, and Athar Minallah all supported the order.
