ISLAMABAD: Disposing of a plea of two Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) MNAs pertaining to their dispossession from the residences at the parliament lodges, the Islamabad High Court chief justice, Justice Athar Minallah has ordered them to contact the National Assembly speaker for redressal of their issue.
The plea was lodged by PTI MNAs Amir Sultan and Shaukat Ali Bhatti. Asking the court to nullify the eviction notice of the Capital Development Authority, they made the NA secretary and CDA chairman as defendants in the case.
The PTI MNAs said the CDA officials tried to throw their belongings without giving any reason, while the NA was still functional. They said, being members of the assembly, they had the right to accommodate in the official residences.
They termed it an attempt to stop functioning of the National Assembly.
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Justice Athar Minallah said since parliament was the supreme institution, therefore the matter should be sent to it.
He asked their lawyer if they attended the NA session. Upon which, he confirmed that they participated in the National Assembly meetings.
The counsel said his clients had submitted an application to the NA deputy speaker, but he did not respond to it. The IHC CJ directed him to send an application to the NA speaker.
On June 16, the IHC had annulled its single bench order to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to decide Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) foreign funding case within 30 days in an intra-court appeal.
A divisional bench of the Islamabad High Court comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Babar Sattar had taken up the intra court plea against the IHC single bench order to the ECP to decide PTI foreign funding case in 30 days.
The IHC in order had said to the ECP to decide on prohibited funding cases of other parties within an appropriate time frame. The court had remarked, “We have no doubt that the ECP will treat all parties equally.”
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