KP advocate general questions maintainability of plea against PTI's Sept 27 protest
ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Advocate General Shah Faisal Utmankhel on Thursday questioned the maintainability of a petition filed in the Islamabad High Court against the PTI’s planned protest on Sept 27. The PTI has announced a nationwide protest on Sept 27 to demand the release of party founder Imran Khan and mobilise people for the supremacy of the Constitution. A citizen, Waqas Ahmed, has…
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Advocate General Shah Faisal Utmankhel questioned the maintainability of a petition against the planned protest by the PTI on September 27. The petitioner, Waqas Ahmed, argued that the protest could disrupt normal life, traffic, and business in Islamabad. Utmankhel contended that a legal remedy existed before the Islamabad chief commissioner and that the high court's extraordinary jurisdiction could not be invoked in this case.
The chief justice, Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar, questioned whether the PTI was actually planning the protest and whether it was constitutional for the chief minister, Sohail Afridi, to support it. Utmankhel emphasized that political statements by the chief minister did not fall within the scope of the advocate general's office.
The court's chief secretary and Punjab Advocate General Barrister Zaffarullah Khan also appeared before the court, supporting the KP AG's position.
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