The Election Commission of Pakistan has decided to hold an open hearing on the Sunni Ittehad Council’s (SIC) plea seeking allocation of the reserved seats in the national and provincial assemblies on Tuesday (today).

The decision was taken at a meeting of the commission held on Monday with Chief Election Com­m­i­ssioner Sikandar Sultan Raja in the chair. The ECP will also hold a hearing about the petition, filed by convener MQM-P, against the proposed allocation of seats to the SIC.

Last week, Moulvi Iqbal Haider also filed a petition, seeking to ‘restrain the political party Sunni Ittehad Council being treated as parliamentary party’. This petition along with other related petitions will also be taken up for hearing today.

These include the plea of Mehmood Ahmad Khan seeking to get certified copies of a merger between the PTI and the SIC and the affidavits submitted in favour of the SIC by the PTI-supported members of national provincial assemblies.

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