Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's government is involved in a row with the Supreme Court over snap polls in two provinces.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's government is involved in a row with the Supreme Court over the holding of snap polls in two provinces where former leader Imran Khan had dissolved the local governments this year in a bid to force early elections.
Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Wednesday set up a panel of eight judges, to be headed by himself, that on Thursday started discussing the draft law, according to the court's cause list. "We reject this panel," Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, flanked by all of the government's coalition partners, told a news conference in Islamabad."We expect that this panel will be dissolved today."A parliamentary finance committee on Thursday rejected a bill to issue 21 billion rupees in funds for the snap polls, Sharif's aide, Ata Tarar, said.
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