Hamza Shahbaz has lost his govt & solution given by the court will not bring an end to the crisis: Fawad  

ISLAMABAD, June 30 (SABAH): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former minister for information and broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday announced that the his party will challenge the Lahore High Court (LHC) verdict on pleas against Hamza Shahbaz’s election as Chief Minister Punjab in the Supreme Court of Pakistan over anomalies.

In a message from his Twitter handle, Fawad Chaudhry said that the decision by the Lahore High Court has further complicated the political crisis in the province. “Hamza Shahbaz has lost his government and the solution given by the court will not bring an end to the crisis,” he said.

Fawad Chaudhry said that there are multiple anomalies in the decision and a meeting of legal advisers has been summoned to mull over it. “We will raise these anomalies before the Supreme Court,” Fawad Chaudhry said.

Meanwhile PTI leader Senator Faisal Javed Khan said: “At present, there is a constitutional crisis in Punjab. The election of the chief minister is illegal and violates the constitution. The constitution was disregarded. The court later ruled that defectors’ votes would not be counted.”

Meanwhile former minister of state for information and broadcasting, Farrukh Habib said: “The votes of 25 turncoats will not be counted, according to the Supreme Court’s decision. This means that the PML-N did not have a simple majority of 186 votes on April 16, and no party now has a majority. Five reserved seats have yet to be filled.”