ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday once again moved the Supreme Court (SC) urging it to direct Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Governor Haji Ghulam Ali to announce elections for the province.
The petition filed by Barrister Gohar Khan on behalf of former KP speaker Mushtaq Ghani, stated that the governor stepped back from his decision to hold elections in KP on May 28 when he asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold the general elections in the province on October 8.
It comes two days after the apex court, on Tuesday, in its unanimous verdict, declared the ECP’s decision to delay elections in Punjab and KP null and void, ordering the electoral body to hold snap polls in Punjab on May 14.
Today’s petition
The petition, filed today, read that it is important to hold elections within 90 days once the assembly is dissolved.
“Under the Constitution, there is no provision in which an unelected and selected caretaker government can continue to operate for more than a period of 90 days,” the petition said, adding that it was beyond the “scope and ambit of the Constitution to allow an unrepresented government to continue to govern the population of Pakistan, including that of a province.”
