ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Sindh attorney general and government on independent candidates being barred for contesting on reserved seats in local bodies polls.
This step was taken on Sindh’s former home minister Zulfiqar Mirza’s filed petition. A 2-member bench of SC presided over by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali took up the case for hearing on Monday. The court while rejecting the plea for seeking stay order on the polls for reserved seats adjourned the hearing of the case till next week.
At the inception of the hearing, Mirza’s counsel requested the court for staying holding of polls on reserved seats, saying section 18 (A) of Sindh Local Government runs contrary to the constitution, to which the chief justice remarked, “Elections are already late and we cannot issue stay order on this occasion.”
