The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Supreme Court deferred a hearing on the Election Commission’s application for interim relief to challenge a high court order allowing Provisional Registration of the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf (PTI) as a political party. The full court, consisting of Chief Justice Raja Saeed Akram, Justice Raza Ali Khan, and Justice Khalid Yousaf Chaudhary, ruled that the application will be heard alongside the Election Commission’s petition for leave to appeal.
The high court had directed the commission to provisionally register PTI on June 23, which temporarily overturned the commission’s previous decision rejecting their registration application. The Election Commission filed a petition for leave to appeal in the Supreme Court along with an application under the Rules of Order VI of the Supreme Court, seeking interim relief pending the appeal.
During the previous hearing, PTI counsel Yasir Safeer Mughal requested an adjournment due to insufficient preparation. The Chief Justice Raja Saeed Akram allowed this request and held that the high court’s order would remain in abeyance until July 2.
At the deferred hearing on Thursday, the Supreme Court ordered that the application for interim relief be heard together with the Election Commission’s petition for leave to appeal. No specific date was set for the hearing, given the upcoming summer recess of the court from Monday until October 7. This delay leaves the legal status of PTI’s provisional registration unresolved during the electoral process scheduled for July 27.
Source: Original report
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