PESHAWAR: PTI (Sunni Ittehad Council) is likely to get 25 reserved seats in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after the decision of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
After the elections, the Election Commission distributed five women’s seats in which two were given to PML-N and two to JUI while one seat was given to People’s Party.
After the decision of the Supreme Court, PTI will now get 21 women and four minority seats in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, after which PTI will have 118 seats in the 145-seat house of the provincial assembly.
JUI and PML-N have 9, 9 seats, People’s Party 5, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Parliamentarian 2 and ANP currently have 1 seat while ANP after the declaration of ANC candidate in Bajaur last night. The seats will be two.
It should be noted that the Supreme Court has annulled the decision of the Peshawar High Court and the Election Commission regarding the specific seats of the Sunni Ittehad Council.
A 13-member larger bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Qazi Faiz Isa, had reserved the verdict in the case regarding the specific seats of the Sunni Unity Council, which was pronounced by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah.
The court declared the Election Commission’s notification of May 13 unconstitutional. The majority decision of the Supreme Court has said that a party cannot be deprived of the electoral process by depriving it of an election symbol.
