ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Tuesday filed a petition before the Supreme Court to become a party in former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s case.
The government moved an application requesting the apex court to allow it to become party to a petition that challenged Dar’s election as a senator on a technocrat seat from Punjab in 2018.
The application stated that the Supreme Court suspended the notification of the PML-N leader’s election, due to which he had been unable to take oath, depriving the upper house of Parliament of a public representative.
It stated that the president recently promulgated an ordinance fixing a deadline of 60 days for elected representatives to take the oath.
The government also filed a separate application seeking early hearing of the case.