📌 Key Highlights & Quick Takeaways:
- The Islamabad High Court, while reserving the decision on the request to stop the local body elections of the federal capital, remarked that.
- Justice Umair Muheed Malik heard the petition of Chaudhry Amjad Ali. The court also reserved its decision on the petitioner's separate plea.
- During the hearing, the petitioner's lawyer Adil Aziz Qazi argued that new constituencies were drawn in 2024, then the election schedule cam.
The Islamabad High Court, while reserving the decision on the request to stop the local body elections of the federal capital, remarked that if someone spends crores of rupees, what should the court do in it? It is very alarming that after spending crores of rupees on the election, they will say that they have spent one lakh rupees.
Justice Umair Muheed Malik heard the petition of Chaudhry Amjad Ali. The court also reserved its decision on the petitioner's separate plea to suspend the schedule of local body elections.
During the hearing, the petitioner's lawyer Adil Aziz Qazi argued that new constituencies were drawn in 2024, then the election schedule came and the new Local Government Election Ordinance came in 2026.
Justice Umair Majeed Malik inquired whether it has become a law now?
The petitioner's lawyer said that no, it has been approved by the cabinet and now it has reached the parliament. When the new ordinance came, the old election schedule was returned, the new constituencies were also ended. There is one Metropolitan Corporation in the Act and three in the Ordinance while the Schedule was issued without restoring the old constituencies when the Ordinance expired.
