{"id":196419,"date":"2022-07-27T00:07:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=196419"},"modified":"2022-07-27T00:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:37:59","slug":"pakistan-sc-strikes-down-deputy-speakers-ruling-names-parvez-elahi-as-punjab-chief-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/07\/27\/pakistan-sc-strikes-down-deputy-speakers-ruling-names-parvez-elahi-as-punjab-chief-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan SC strikes down deputy speaker&#8217;s ruling, names Parvez Elahi as Punjab chief minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Islamabad, Jul 26 (PTI) Pakistan&#8217;s Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Punjab Assembly deputy speaker&#8217;s decision to reject 10 votes as unconstitutional and named PML-Q leader Chaudhry Parvez Elahi as the chief minister of the politically crucial province, in a major setback to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pervez Elahi, who lost the election held on Friday despite getting a majority vote, challenged the ruling of deputy speaker Dost Mazari who handed victory to Hamza, son of Prime Minister Sharif.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justices Ijazul Ahsan and Munib Akhtar, which heard the case, ruled that Pervez Elahi is the chief minister of Punjab province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the election, Mazari had decided against counting the votes of 10 PML-Q lawmakers, which were cast in Elahi&#8217;s favour, citing a letter written by party President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain in which he had instructed them to vote for Hamza instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court also ordered the Punjab Governor to swear in Pervez Elahi as chief minister before 11:30 PM Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jul 26 (PTI) Pakistan&#8217;s Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Punjab Assembly deputy speaker&#8217;s decision to reject 10 votes as unconstitutional and named PML-Q leader Chaudhry Parvez Elahi as the chief minister of the politically crucial province, in a major setback to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Pervez Elahi, who lost the election held on Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-196419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}