SC to announce verdict on deputy speaker's ruling, NA dissolution at 7:30 pm

ISLAMABAD, APR 7: The Supreme Court reserved its verdict on a suo motu case concerning the legality of the deputy speaker's ruling and the subsequent dissolution of the NA by the president on the PM's advice.

The verdict will be announced at 7:30pm in the evening. In anticipation of the verdict, security has been beefed up at the SC premises with television footage showing riot police deployed outside the apex court.

A five-member bench headed by CJP Bandial and comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel, Justice Munib Akhtar and Justice Mandokhel heard the case.

Clear that deputy speaker's ruling is erroneous: CJP

Earlier, during the hearing, CJP Bandial said that it was clear that the April 3 ruling of National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri, which dismissed the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan, was erroneous.

"The real question at hand is what happens next," he said, adding that now the PML-N counsel and the Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) Khalid Jawed Khan would guide the court on how to proceed.

"We have to look at national interest," he said, adding that the court would issue a verdict today.

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Courtesy Dawn News

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