MQM leader Farooq Sattar. PHOTO: EXPRESS/RASHID AJMERI
MQM leaders Farooq Sattar and Senator Farogh Naseem personally filed the suit in the court.
Speaking to the media outside the court, Sattar said that his party objected to the delimitation because legal procedures were not followed.
He further stated that the delimitation was unconstitutional.
While explaining MQM’s reservations, Naseem informed the media that the case against the delimitation was very strong and it will be easy to strike it down.
He stressed that the delimitation was done on the basis of estimated population while law dictates that the census of 1998 should have been followed.
The rift between the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and MQM over this issue has caused delay in the local bodies elections. The official date for elections in Sindh was decided to be January 18 but the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) failed to notify the polling schedule because the provincial government had not completed the pre-requisites in time.
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