The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday postponed the hearing of a petition seeking disqualification of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari on accusations of concealing his assets in New York. The IHC’s registrar office is expected to fix the hearing of the petition again. On Tuesday, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker Khurram Sher Zaman and the incumbent Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs Usman Dar appeared before the court to file the petition. However, the court had ordered the petitioners to satisfy that the matter was related to public interest and remove certain reservations before proceedings of the case. Moreover, Justice Athar Minallah had expressed annoyance over the issue with remarks that “why the court is being approached on political matters while the concerned authority is the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)”.
Published in Daily Times, February 1st 2019.
