The Lahore High Court adjourned to February 7 proceedings in a petition praying to stay upcoming Senate elections and directed the petitioner to submit his arguments on point of maintainability of the petition. The petitioner a bar member Feroze Shah Gillani said that elections of national and all provincial assemblies were not transparent.
He said that the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on July 4, 2011 informed the Supreme Court that there were 37,185998 unverified votes in the voter list. Therefore, the elections of the assemblies based on the existing voters' list were not in accordance with the requirements of article 28(3) of the Constitution.
The petitioner said that due to same reason the Supreme Court had restrained the election commission from holding by-elections of national and provincial assemblies scheduled for Feb 20, 2012.
He said after the SC directions it was evident that the elections on the vacant seats of the Senate through assemblies created on the basis of unverified voters would also be against the dictates of the Constitution.
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