The Election Commission of Pakistan has adjourned till tomorrow the hearing on the Sunni Ittehad Council’s plea seeking allocation of reserved seats as well as the six petitions against this.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja headed a five-member bench which heard petitions by PML-N’s Azam Nazeer Tarar, PPP’s Farooq Naik and SIC’s counsel Gohar Khan and Ali Zafar.

Zafar stated that he had sought the allocation of reserved seats for the SIC, wondering why the other parties had decided to show up.

PML-N’s Tarar argued that the SIC had not won a single seat in the National Assembly, therefore, the independents that had joined the party could not be given reserved seats.