PMLN stages rally to protest verdict in reserved seats case

MANSEHRA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) on Monday took out a rally to protest against the Supreme Court’s recent verdict in the reserved seats case and to express solidarity with the Pak Army.

“Illogical verdict pronounced by the then chief justice Saqib Nisar in Panama Leaks case has now been followed in case of the seats reserved for women and minorities, destabilizing the country politically and economically,” Sardar Mohammad Yusuf, the PML-N central senior vice president, told the rally here.

The rally, which was taken out from outside the press club culminated at the Khatm-e-Nubuwat Chowk after marching through Kashmir and Abbottabad roads.Holding banners and placards, participants of the rally chanted slogans in support of the Pak army. “The unconstitutional verdict granted unsolicited seats reserved for women and minorities in national and four provincial assemblies to a party which had contested elections without any symbol and did not stand among litigants,” Sardar Yusuf said.

He said that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif was disqualified for his entire life and put behind bars by then CJ Saqib Nisar through allegedly illogical decisions.

“There is no room for such rulings to destabilize the country and we came on roads to protest against it,” he said.The PML-N leader said through an organised conspiracy an anti-Pak Army campaign was being run which was unacceptable to his party.

The former District nazim Sardar Said Ghulam also addressed the rally and said that the country was suffering the brunt of such illogical decisions pronounced by the judiciary in the past.“The country is on its way to prosperity and development under the leadership of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif which is a challenge to a group whose leader issues warnings from jail seeking luxuries never featured in the jail manual,” he said.