Pakistan’s Supreme Court has suspended a high court verdict that denied reserved seats to a political party aligned with incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan. The party had formed an alliance with another party in an attempt to secure reserved seats in the national and provincial legislatures. The Election Commission of Pakistan had ruled the alliance ineligible, but the Supreme Court has suspended this decision. As a result, the ruling coalition government has lost its two-thirds majority in the National Assembly.
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has granted post-arrest bails to former Prime Minister Imran Khan and ex-foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a cipher case related to the alleged leaking of state secrets. Imran remains in jail due to another corruption case. The Election Commission of Pakistan has rejected PTI’s organisational elections and symbol plea for the upcoming general elections.