PAKISTAN TEHREEK-E-INSAAF vs PROVINCE OF SINDH arts — 2023 PLD 110 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

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PAKISTAN TEHREEK-E-INSAAF VS PROVINCE OF SINDH arts. 140-a, 199, 219(d) & 220---Constitutional petition---Local Bodies elections---Provincial Government, duty of---Petitioner was a political party and aggrieved of postponing of local bodies elections repeatedly by Provincial Government on one pretext or the other---Held; the election was repeatedly postponed for almost 4 months and a definite future date was still not in sight---There was considerable time for an appropriate solution to have been found, and the matter could not indefinitely be kept in abeyance by Provincial administration continuing to withhold the aid it was duty bound to provide to Election Commission of Pakistan on the pretext of flood duties---High Court refrained from dictating date of Election nor directed the manner in which election was to be conducted or policed---High Court expected that Election Commission of Pakistan would notify polling date, preferably within a period of 15 days specifying a fresh polling date, or indeed date(s) as the case could be in the event that it was deemed expedient to stagger the process but so as to preferably conclude overall exercise of Election in any event within a total period of 60 days---High Court directed Provincial Government to ensure that requisite assistance, whether by way of adequate security or otherwise, was rendered to Election Commission of Pakistan in the matter, as per art. 220 of the Constitution---High Court directed the Chief Secretary of Sindh and Inspector General of Police to ensure that any preparatory or organizational steps as were required for the purpose would be taken well in advance of the date(s) so that any and all impediments in that regard were surmounted by then---Constitutional petition was disposed of accordingly.

PAKISTAN TEHREEK-E-INSAAF vs PROVINCE OF SINDH arts — 2023 PLD 110 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

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