Overview
- Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail issued a 12-page note partially accepting challenges to the majority verdict in Pakistan’s reserved seats case.
- He upheld his original stance on 39 reserved seats but rejected the majority’s handling of 41 others as constitutionally and factually flawed.
- He converted the portion of the July 12, 2024 ruling that declared 41 candidates independent into a review, saying the matter was not before the court.
- He wrote that Article 187 does not grant unlimited power and that no authority, including the Supreme Court, can change a candidate’s declared status.
- He found no evidence the 41 candidates had PTI affiliation before joining the Sunni Ittehad Council and termed the 15-day switching allowance unconstitutional.