The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Saturday filed a petition in the Sindh High Court challenging a notification of the Election Commission of Pakistan to postpone the second phase of local government elections earlier scheduled for July 24 in Sindh.
Senior PTI leader Ashraf Jabbar Qureshi, through his lawyer, moved the SHC stating that the ECP in connivance with the Pakistan People’s Party and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan was delaying the LG elections with mala fide intentions as they were afraid of the PTI’s popularity.
The petitioner submitted that he was a candidate of the PTI for the post a union committee chairman in district Central and a few days before the polling day, provincial election commissioner had sent a letter to the ECP secretary to postpone the July 24 LG polls on account of forecasted thunderstorm and torrential rains in Karachi and Hyderabad.
