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Timeline issued after SC steps in to rescue Feb 8 poll date

by Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, Dec 16th, 2023• Apex court opens its doors after working hours, live-streams proceedings as ECP boss seeks halt to stay order on appointment of poll staff• SC regrets LHC judge acted in ‘haste’; questions ‘bona fide’ nature of PTI’s plea, hints at contempt action against lawyer who petitioned high court ISLAMABAD: A visibly disturbed Supreme Court bench suspended the Dec 13 Lahore High Court (LHC) order staying the appointment of…

February 8 polls hit a snag after LHC ruling

by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, Dec 15th, 2023• ECP stops trainings of election staff; official says schedule not feasible without ROs• PTI demands poll schedule ‘within 24 hours’, seeks election supervisors from judiciary• PML-N says PTI didn’t question appointment of bureaucrats in 2018 polls; PPP says won’t tolerate delays ISLAMABAD: A day after a Lahore High Court order suspended a notification by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) regarding the appointment of returning officers…

‘Rifts’ prevail in PTI as party chief languishes in jail:

By Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, December 1st, 2023ISLAMABAD: The decision to nominate ‘newcomer’ Barrister Gohar Ali Khan for the slot of PTI chairman in the upcoming party polls seems to have caused a rift within the former ruling party, with some leaders comparing the nomination to the appointment of Usman Buzdar as the Punjab chief minister — a move that had drawn considerable flak for Imran Khan. In addition, a purported disagreement between Mr Khan’s…

Political leaders want new CJP to ‘balance scales of justice’

by Amjad Mahmood in Dawn, Sept 18th, 2023LAHORE: Political leaders have congratulated Qazi Faez Isa on his appointment as the 29th chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) and hoped the court would be balanced in the dispensation of justice under his leadership. Former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and PML-N chief organiser Maryam Nawaz Sharif expressed the hope that principles of justice would be upheld during the new chief justice’s tenure. Congratulating CJP Isa on his new…