{"id":19375,"date":"2022-09-21T12:17:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=19375"},"modified":"2022-09-21T12:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:17:06","slug":"sc-dismisses-plea-seeking-disqualification-of-two-pti-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2022\/09\/21\/sc-dismisses-plea-seeking-disqualification-of-two-pti-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"SC dismisses plea seeking disqualification of two PTI leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: <\/strong>The Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday a\u00a0petition seeking disqualification against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders Khusro Bakhtiar and\u00a0Hashim Jawan Bakht.<\/p>\n

The plea was heard by a three-member bench, headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan,\u00a0comprising Justice Ayesha Malik and Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi.<\/p>\n

Irked by the petitioner’s, lawyer Ahsan Abid, “manners”, the apex court,\u00a0during today’s hearing, reprimanded Abid, asking him if the three people [judges] sitting in front of him were “useless”.<\/p>\n

Justice Ahsan questioned the lawyer on why he would start pondering every time he was asked a question. “You do not have the manners to appear before\u00a0the Supreme Court. Such a reaction is an insult to the court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Apologising\u00a0to the court, the petitioner explained that Bakhtiar and his brother, Jawan Bakht\u00a0had hidden assets.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could not provide evidence regarding concealment of assets to the Election Commission even,\u201d Justice Ahsan maintained.<\/p>\n

Justice Ayesha stated that, \u201cThe document you are relying on is a complaint filed with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Should two members of the National Assembly be disqualified on the basis of\u00a0a\u00a0complaint?\u201d<\/p>\n

Questioning the petitioner, Justice Ahsan asked, \u201cDid you contest the election against Khusro Bakhtiar? How many votes did you get?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKhusro Bakhtiar got 100,000 votes and I got about 1,000 votes,\u201d the petitioner replied.<\/p>\n

After hearing the arguments, Justice Naqvi\u00a0advised the petitioner to withdraw the application. \u201cIt will be appropriate to withdraw the application, and wait for new elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Last month, the apex court had issued a\u00a0written<\/a>\u00a0order on the appeal for the disqualification of the brothers after the SC registrar declared the plea inadmissible.<\/p>\n

The order stated that the registrar was mandated to deal with administrative matters, and was also empowered to ensure that the petition is in accordance with the SC Rules.<\/p>\n

However, the judge noted that the registrar does not have the power to decide whether an application is admissible or not, therefore, this decision can only be made under the jurisdiction of the court.<\/p>\n

The top court thus accepted the appeal against the objections of the Registrar\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday a\u00a0petition seeking disqualification against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders Khusro Bakhtiar and\u00a0Hashim Jawan Bakht. The plea was heard by a three-member bench, headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan,\u00a0comprising Justice Ayesha Malik and Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi. Irked by the petitioner’s, lawyer Ahsan Abid, “manners”, the apex court,\u00a0during today’s hearing, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-pakistan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19377,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19375\/revisions\/19377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}