{"id":65421,"date":"2024-02-28T12:58:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/president-pm-polls-will-be-disputed-if-sic-not-given-reserved-seats-pti\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:58:04","slug":"president-pm-polls-will-be-disputed-if-sic-not-given-reserved-seats-pti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/president-pm-polls-will-be-disputed-if-sic-not-given-reserved-seats-pti\/","title":{"rendered":"President, PM polls will be disputed, if SIC not given reserved seats: PTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: The President and Prime Minister\u2019s elections will become disputed, if the SIC would not be granted its quota of reserved seats, quoting PTI\u2019s lawyers ARY News reported on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barrister Ali Zafar talking to media said, \u201cWe would go to the Supreme Court if this unlawful embezzlement took place. \u201cThe Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) didn\u2019t refuse reserved seats ever,\u201d the lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe told the election commission to show us that letter, but they didn\u2019t do so,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Barrister Gohar said that the house will not be completed till presence of all members of the assembly. He also urged the electoral body to decide the matter today.<\/p>\n<p>The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) today reserved its decision on the Sunni Ittehad Council\u2019s plea seeking reserved seats in assemblies.<\/p>\n<p>A five-member bench of the ECP headed by CEC Sikandar Sultan Raja took up the plea.<\/p>\n<p>Barrister Ali Zafar in his arguments before the electoral body said PTI-backed independent candidates joined the SIC after winning the elections. It is our right to have reserved seats in the assembly, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Zafar said PTI had submitted a list of the reserved seats but after losing the party symbol, the candidates contested elections as independents.<\/p>\n<p>After joining SIC, we forwarded the request for the reserved seats, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The President and Prime Minister\u2019s elections will become disputed, if the SIC would not be granted its quota of reserved seats, quoting PTI\u2019s lawyers ARY News reported on Wednesday. Barrister Ali Zafar talking to media said, \u201cWe would go to the Supreme Court if this unlawful embezzlement took place. \u201cThe Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ali-Zafar.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}