ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazal(JUI-F) has filed a plea in the Supreme Court against its own female National Assembly Member on a reserved seat.
In the petition filed by JUI in the Supreme Court, it was stated that the name of Sadaf Ehsan was not in the list submitted by the party, the party was named Sadaf Yasmin but she did not show interest.
It is stated in the petition that Sadaf Ehsan got the seat held by Sadaf Yasmin through the alleged connivance of some party elements.
In the JUI plea, it is said that when the Election Commission of Pakistan started an inquiry, Sadaf Ehsan approached the High Court.
The Peshawar High Court ordered to issuing of notification to Sadaf Ehsan as a Member of the Assembly, the decision of the Peshawar High Court should be annulled as it is not by the constitution and law.
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Earlier, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman sought suspension of the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) notification of a woman member on a National Assembly reserved seat, saying that the notified legislator was an ‘unknown’ to the party.
The electoral authority issued the notification, bearing number F6 of 2024, for the success of Sadaf Ehsan, who the JUI-F chief says was not a party member, on the NA reserved seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
