As the Peshawar High Court heard a plea of the Sunni Ittehad Council seeking the allocation of reserved seats, the PPP argued that the former did not have a right to those seats.

Upon Anwar seeking adjournment of the hearing till tomorrow, the court observed that the larger bench could not take up cases every day and rejected the counsel’s plea.

“He (Anwar) has not submitted any application. He is a senior counsel; he should not have done so. We have few judges and hear cases for five to six hours each day. The court also has to hear the cases of poor petitioners,” it noted.

Here, PPP counsel Farooq H. Naek informed the court that elections on a few Senate seats were scheduled for tomorrow. The court asked him if his client had “gotten more seats than its share”, to which the lawyer replied, “The Sunni Ittehad Council does not have a right to the reserved seats.”