Former prime minister Imran Khan says election commission’s move is violation of Pakistan’s constitution
But Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, rejected Khan’s demands for a quick election. Khan responded by dissolving the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies, the provincial governments where his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, remained in power.
The supreme court ruled on 1 March that the new elections be held within 90 days. It asked the election commission to propose a poll date and said it could deviate from the 90-day deadline only by the “barest minimum” in case of any practical difficulty. Salahuddin Ahmed, a lawyer, said the decision to delay the elections by six months represented a violation of the constitution, and the case would go back to the court to be resolved. “To deal with this constitutional crisis, the court has to come up with a full bench, otherwise selecting a few judges to decide on this crucial issue will raise eyebrows,” he said.
Former senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar suggested the election commission had been pressured by the government and a political establishment who were terrified of going to the polls at a time when Khan’s popularity is as high as it has recently been. “The security situation was worse in 2008, when suicide bombings were taking place across the country and we even lost
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