Petitioner Munir Ahmad had submitted an application seeking Speaker Rana Iqbal’s disqualification from the assembly.
Lahore High Court on Thursday directed that all petitions against the Punjab Assembly speaker’s caretaker appointment to the office of governor be consolidated so that they could be heard together. Petitioner Munir Ahmad had submitted an application seeking Speaker Rana Iqbal’s disqualification from his assembly membership in an already pending petition challenging the caretaker appointment itself as unconstitutional.
In the latest application, the petitioner stated that with Iqbal’s appointment to the governor’s office, he had become an employee of the state and was therefore no longer eligible to be a member of the assembly.
The hearing in the case will resume today.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 13th, 2015.
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