LAHORE, April 1: PML-N advocate Tayyiba Zameer has moved the Lahore High Court for correction of what she called a typographical error, which blocked her way to the National Assembly on reserved seats for women.

She said the PML-N forwarded a list of women candidates to the Election Commission of Pakistan and her name was listed at sixth position in the list. She added that due to stenographer’s mistake, the name of Nighat Parveen Meer got printed instead of her name on the list. She claimed Nighat was never a candidate for the National Assembly slot and her name was mentioned in the MPAs’ reserved list.

Tayyiba prayed to the court that instead of Nighat her name be considered in the list and the ECP be directed to notify her as a successful candidate.

FHC CASE: A division bench of Lahore High Court asked on Tuesday a petitioner to make arguments as to how this court could issue an order against the Federal High Court after it had started functioning.The bench asked MD Tahir to help the court on the subject in two weeks. Mr Tahir has moved an intra-court appeal challenging the single bench's order of dismissal of his petition against the establishment of the Federal High Court.

“Since Islamabad Capital Territory has got its own peculiar status, the establishment of the high court for the territory cannot be questioned on any legitimate basis," the single bench observed while dismissing the petition on Feb 29.

The petitioner asked the court to declare illegal the Federal High Court established by the caretaker government. He said parliament, not the president, had authority to establish a high court.

He said the caretaker government, empowered to deal with matters on day-to-day basis, could not have establish the high court.