Anticipated order of SC: Federal govt sets new strategy to postpone elections

Supreme Court of Pakistan’s Spontaneous Notice Case on Delay in Dates of General Elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The Supreme Court will deliver its reserved judgment today, with a strong possibility that the Supreme Court will order the Election Commission to hold the elections on time. should be done, while the other government has formulated a strategy that if the Supreme Court orders the Election Commission, which is a constitutional body, it will ask all its members to resign.

In the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s spontaneous notice case on the delay in the elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Supreme Court had reserved its decision after a four-day long debate, which will be pronounced today at 11 o’clock.

On the orders of the previous Chief Justice of Pakistan, the lawyers consulted the leaders of their respective parties on the date, but no consensus could be reached.

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It is widely known in the political circles of Islamabad that if the Supreme Court of Pakistan in its decision today instructed the Election Commission that you have to hold elections within 90 days, you should not wait for the date and hold the elections. Prepare and tell the governors that if you give the date, the government has prepared a strategy to oppose it.

Rumors are rife that in such a situation the Chief Election Commissioner and Provincial Election Commissioners will resign from their posts in protest, that the Supreme Court has tried to encroach on their domain.

There are also talks in political circles that the Chief Election Commissioners and other members of the Election Commission may resign based on the instructions of the Supreme Court.

There is also a discussion going on in the government circle that if the decision of the Supreme Court comes against them to hold the elections on time, which the government does not want to do, in such a situation the Election Commission will be discharged, then a new situation will have to be faced. will go, because when there is no Election Commission, who will conduct the elections?

After that, the government and the opposition will sit together for the new Chief Election Commissioner and the new members of the Election Commission and appoint the new members.

It should be noted that yesterday Attorney General Shahzad Ata Elahi said that the court can grant permission for a delay of more than 90 days. On which the Chief Justice remarked that it should be understood that the court will extend an unconstitutional act.