Chief of the Awami Muslim League (AML) Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has accepted the verdict of Lahore High Court (LHC) delaying by-elections for 4 constituencies of Punjab but said he would challenge this decision before the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Talking to the newsmen at the LHC building Sheikh Rashid said that the Punjab government had created history by moving the petition to delay the by-election. He had not accused any body for this delay and could only say that the whole exercise done by the provincial government was based to accommodate one person who did not want to contest election from Lahore.
He had filed petition to understand why the PML-N wanted to postpone the polls, when it had already won both national assembly seats during the general election. Rashid claimed that he wanted to participate in the election to strengthen the democracy and supremacy of the parliament.
Rashid's counsel Barrister Farooq Hassan said that he accepts the decision and would move to the Supreme Court against it but was surprise that LHC judge undo the election commission's decision whose status is that of a Supreme Court judge. A Jamaat-e-Islami leader Hafiz Salman Butt who is candidate for national assembly seat NA-123, Lahore was accompanying Rashid also said that he accepted the LHC decision but would consult his counsel to challenge it before the Supreme Court.
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