The Peshawar High Court has dismissed the Sunni Ittehad Council’s petition challenging the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to reject the party allocation of reserved women and minority seats.

Yesterday, Attorney General for Pakistan Mansoor Usman Awan and the counsels for the PPP and ECP had completed their arguments.

AGP Awan had argued that a political party could get reserved seats only if it won a general one. ECP lawyer Sikander Basheer Momand had supported his arguments, stating that the SIC was a political party but not a parliamentary one.

Today, the bench — led by Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim and including Justices Ijaz Anwar, S.M. Attique Shah, Shakeel Ahmed and Syed Arshad Ali — resumed hearing the case.

PTI’s Ali Zafar appeared as the counsel for the SIC and completed his arguments, following which the court reserved its verdict.