Overview

• A Lahore High Court bench led by Justice Ahmad Nadeem Arshad dismissed MNA Ahmad Raza Maneka’s petition as non-maintainable.
• The petition targeted an interim Election Tribunal ruling in NA-137 (Pakpattan), with Maneka’s lawyer citing unsigned affidavits from 29 witnesses among procedural objections.
• Counsel for rival candidate Rao Umar Hashim argued only a final tribunal decision can be challenged by writ, indicating further remedy lies before the tribunal.
• In a separate incident, Sabzazar police arrested the alleged shooter, who confessed to killing his brother-in-law and the victim’s wife and to discarding the weapon in Khadark Nala, according to the DIG Operations.
• Police recovered the motorcycle used and continue searching for the weapon, while IG Punjab Dr. Usman Anwar met personnel and families at the Central Police Office and ordered immediate transfer, legal, welfare and housing relief.