Court moved against PDM protest outside ECP

LAHORE: A writ petition has been moved in the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking directions to stop Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) from holding a protest outside the ECP's office on Tuesday (today).

Chairman Judicial Activism panel Advocate Azhar Siddique has filed the petition, saying the opposition is trying to build pressure on the country’s supreme electoral body and the court should stop PDM’s sit-in outside the ECP.

The institutions work as per law and the protest of opposition outside the ECP is a bid to interfere in its working, the petitioner said. He said the state institutions are run in accordance with law and the PDM protest is a tactic to pressurise the ECP. He said the PDM’s protest is an act of mutiny against the state institution.

Alliance of the opposition parties from the platform of the PDM is set to hold protest outside the ECP’s office to demand election body to decide a foreign funding case. The government has announced not to stop PDM from protest but warned that the law will take its course, if the writ of the state was challenged.