ISLAMABAD: Sunni Unity Council will get reserved seats or not? Another important Friday in judicial history, the reserved judgment will be delivered today at 12 noon on Friday. A thirteen-member full court headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faiz Isa will deliver the verdict in an open court.
The full court decision of the Sunni Etihad Council reserved seats case under the chairmanship of Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faiz Isa will be pronounced today at twelve o’clock on Friday. Earlier, a three-member regular bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faiz Isa issued a cause list at 9:30 a.m., but later a new cause list was released on the Supreme Court website, according to which today The full court will pronounce the verdict on Friday, July 12 at 12:00.
Earlier, after the decision was secured, a consultative meeting of 13 judges was held on Thursday under the chairmanship of Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faiz Isa, while the consultative meeting continued for more than an hour on Wednesday.
On February 28, 2024, a five-member bench headed by the Chief Election Commissioner issued a unanimous written decision and declared that the Sunni Ittehad Council is not entitled to certain seats. Four members decided to give the seats to other political parties. The dissenting note said that the seats should be kept vacant instead of sharing them among other political parties till the amendment of Article 51 and 106.
The Sunni Ittehad Council challenged the Election Commission’s decision in the Peshawar High Court. In March, a five-member larger bench of the Peshawar High Court upheld the Election Commission’s decision and dismissed the Sunni Ittehad Council’s appeal.
In May this year, the matter reached the Supreme Court, where a three-member bench headed by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Athar Minullah and Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar suspended the decision of the Peshawar High Court and the Election Commission in the first hearing on May 6, 2024.
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court referred the matter for the formation of a larger bench to the Practice and Procedure Committee while framing questions of constitutional and legal interpretation. In a committee meeting consisting of Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faiz Isa, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Muneeb Akhtar, a majority decision was taken to form a full court and then the 13-member full court after 6 long hearings completed the hearing on July 9 and reserved the decision. took
There are several examples of such important decisions in the past that were issued on Fridays. The decision to reinstate former Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was pronounced by the Supreme Court on Friday, July 20, 2007.
The decision to disqualify former Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on imaginary salary in the Panama case was also pronounced on Friday, July 28, 2017.
The decision to declare PTI founder clean chit and Jahangir Khan disqualified on the charge of making foreign properties was also pronounced on Friday, December 15, 2017.
