KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has reserved its decision on the petitions related to the delay in local body elections in Karachi and Hyderabad.
A two-member bench headed by Chief Justice Sindh High Court Justice Ahmed Ali Sheikh heard the petitions of Jamaat-e-Islami and PTI regarding the holding of municipal elections in Karachi and Hyderabad.
Jamaat-e-Islami's Karachi Ameer, Hafiz Naeem-ur- Rehman and Saifuddin Advocate, MQM's Khawaja Izhar-ul-Hassan and Waseem Akhtar, PTI's Haleem Adil Sheikh and other leaders appeared before the court.
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Sindh chief secretary, election commissioner Ejaz Chauhan, advocate general, IG Sindh Ghulam Nabi Memon also appeared in the court.
On behalf of Jamaat-e-Islami, Usman Farooq Advocate from MQM, Tariq Mansoor Advocate and other lawyers also appeared in the court.
The court called the chief secretary and IG Sindh to the rostrum. The IG said, "We are coordinating."
The chief justice remarked that you have to conduct the elections not the coordination.
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