Supreme Court\u2019s Justice Munib Akhtar said on Tuesday that the rights of millions of people in the country were linked to elections and stressed that the public interest was in holding polls within 90 days.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe rights of the people of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are connected to elections,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n
The judge passed these remarks as a three-member bench heard the Election Commission of Pakistan\u2019s petition asking the top court to revisit its April 4 order of holding polls to the Punjab Assembly on May 14.<\/p>\n
The bench hearing the plea comprised Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial and Justices Ijazul Ahsan and Akhtar, the same bench that had issued the order for holding elections in Punjab on May 14.<\/p>\n
During the previous hearing, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial had expressed hope that talks between the coalition government and the PTI could end the stalemate on holding polls in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Supreme Court\u2019s Justice Munib Akhtar said on Tuesday that the rights of millions of people in the country were linked to elections and stressed that the public interest was in holding polls within 90 days. \u201cThe rights of the people of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are connected to elections,\u201d he remarked. The judge passed these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-332955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n