The Sindh High Court (SHC) has disposed of around 45 petitions of national and provincial assembly candidates challenging the tabulation of Form 47 for their respective constituencies, directing them to approach the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

The SHC ordered the ECP to decide on all the petitions till February 22.

During the hearing, the state counsel argued that the pleas were unmaintainable while the ECP’s law officer said that a complaint cell had been established to deal with complaints about the election results.

Barrister Salahuddin, one of the counsels for the petitioners, urged the court to order the ECP to refrain from notifying the final winning candidates till their pleas had been decided.

Advocate Jibran Nasir asserted that returning officers were mandated to compile the results in the presence of the candidates.

In a post on X, Nasir said, “We have no faith in ECP whose mala fide is most glaring in the Shoaib Shaheen case where ECP gave him stay on Sunday and issued notification of his opposing candidate Tariq Fazal Chaudhary as winner on the same day.”