Peshawar High Court hears petitions against governor’s rule today

PESHAWAR: With Peshawar High Court set to hear today (Tuesday) multiple petitions against imposition of emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, PTI chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan has sought permission of the court to file an amended petition to challenge the resolutions passed by a joint sitting of the Parliament as well as National Assembly and Senate separately endorsing the said move. According to the cause list released by the high court, a two-member bench comprising the senior puisne judge, Justice Ijaz Anwar, and Justice Mohammad Faheem Wali will hear seven constitutional petitions, requesting the court to declare as unconstitutional the Oct 11 presidential proclamation under articles 232 and 234 imposing emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The main petition is that of Barrister Gohar Ali, whereas leaders of Tehreek-i-Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP) including its chairman Mahmood Khan Achakzai, its vice chairman Raja Nasir Abbas, Balochistan National Party (Mengal) chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal, Sindh United Party president Zainul Abideen and others have filed two petitions. Barrister Gohar seeks permission to file amended petition to also challenge parliamentary resolutions endorsing govt move The other petitions are that of National Democratic Movement’s central and provincial presidents Mohsin Dawar and Bushra Gohar, MNA Shandana Gulzar, and lawyers Suleman Khan and Qaiser Ali Shah. The petitioners will be represented by Barrister Sameer Khosa, Salman Akram Raja, Ali Zaman, Mohammad Yousaf Orakzai, Bassam Ahmad Siddiqui, Suleman Khan and Qaiser Shah, etc. The federal government on Oct 11 imposed emergency in KP, and placed the province under governor’s rule, taking note of the ‘provincial government’s deliberate disengagement…