PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday adjourned the hearing in writ petitions filed by Sher Afzal Marwat, the leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, for quashing of cases against him.
PHC’s single bench of Justice Waqar Ahmad adjourned the hearing till January 22 and observed that only the division bench would hear the writ petitions while restraining the government from arresting him.
Sher Afzal Marwat advocate pleaded his cases while Additional Advocate General Danyal Asad Chamkani represented the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.
During the course of hearing, Sher Afzal Marwat said that he had organised workers’ conventions of his party due to which the KP government registered cases against him.He said that it was his legal and constitutional right to hold peaceful public meetings and workers’ convention but despite that the provincial government implicated him in several first information reports in different police stations, including Upper Dir, Swabi, Kohat, Mardan and others.
He said that the PHC had already issued directions to the Election Commission of Pakistan to monitor the situation and provide a level- playing field to all the politicians and political parties.
He argued that KP chief secretary had also promised to the PHC bench during hearing in PTI’s provincial president Ali Amin Gandapur writ petition but they were not being implemented in letter and spirit.
He said that the government was harassing the PTI candidates and leaders and pushing the party to the wall with different tactics.Upon this, the AAG said that Sher Afzal Marwat had organised workers’ conventions in various parts of the province without prior permission from the respective district administrations as per the PHC orders.
He said that the petitioner had violated standard operating procedures and the PHC directions already issued to the political leaders and workers.