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ISLAMABAD: According to the Free and Fair Election Network (Fafin) leave of the Free and Fair Election Network (Fafin) on the process of resolution of the election dispute, the electoral tribunals decided in January 2025 to decide 11 election applications, which reduced the total number of applications to 112. , Which represents a total of 30 % in accordance with the Free and Fair Election Network (FAFE) holiday about the resolution of the election dispute. Organized tracking of election applications.
Nine of these petitions were decided by three tribunals in Lahore, while Bahawalpur and Karachi tribunals had decided a petition. In the scheduled petitions, six independent candidates filed in support of Pakistan Tehreek-Insaf (PTI), four Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidates, and one Akhtar Pakistan Party (IPP) All 11 petitions were removed.
The process of resolving the election dispute had won rapidly in the last quarter of 2024, in which about 70 70 petitions were decided, mainly three Balochistan tribunals consisted of the service of the High Court judges. However, progress in January slowed, possibly by December 26, 2024, due to winter holidays by the Balochistan High Court on February 25, 2025.
On the contrary, the disposal of petitions in Punjab showed pace after a prolonged delay due to legal challenges to their constitution.
Fafin is detecting 371 election applications filed with 23 election tribunals across the country. To date, three tribunals in Balochistan have collectively decided 41 out of 51 disputes (80 %). Punjab, which has nine tribunals, has decided 45 of 192 applications (23 %).
Five tribunals of Sindh have resolved 17 of the 83 applications (20 %). Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), where six tribunals were established, have disposed of nine out of 42 applications (21 %). So far, 25 of the 123 applications challenging the results of the National Assembly constituencies have been decided (20 %), including 12 in Punjab, seven in Balochistan, four in Sindh and two in KP.
Since the establishment of the tribunals, progress in resolving the National Assembly disputes has been slow. On the other hand, 87 out of 248 applications (35 %) were resolved to challenge the results of the constituencies of the provincial assemblies. Among them are 34 Balochistan Assembly constituencies, 33 from Punjab Assembly constituencies, 13 from Sindh Assembly constituencies, and seven to KP Assembly constituencies.
So far, at least 38 tribunal decisions – 24 from Balochistan, 24 from Punjab, 10 from Punjab, and four from Sindh – have been contested by appeals before the Supreme Court.
Three of these appeals belong to the Balochistan Assembly constituencies where the tribunals retained the petitions, while the remaining concerns rejected the election petitions.
The Supreme Court has ruled out three out of 38 appeals, accepted one and dismissed two, while the remaining cases are waiting for a decision. Of the 112 scheduled petitions, 108 were dismissed, three were accepted, and an applicant’s death ended. Of the 108 dismissals, 43 were rejected on the basis of volatility, nine were withdrawn, and 12 were dismissed for unexpected. One request was dismissed due to non -payment of the required fee, while the other was dismissed after the candidate’s death. In addition, 20 applications were rejected after a full trial. However, the reasons for dismissing 22 applications are unknown due to the absence of copies of the decision. All three accepted applications were related to the Balochistan Assembly constituencies, resulting in re-polling orders in specific polling areas of PB-44 Quetta-VI, PB45 Quetta-VI, and PB36.
