{"id":4422,"date":"2026-11-14T15:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T10:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2026-11-14T15:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T10:03:48","slug":"petition-challenges-detention-of-sohail-afridi-others-in-constitutional-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4422","title":{"rendered":"Petition challenges detention of Sohail Afridi, others in constitutional court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A constitutional petition has been filed in the Federal Constitutional Court challenging the arrest and detention of nine lawmakers, including former chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sohail Afridi and assembly speaker Babar Saleem Swati.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The petition was filed by opposition leaders Mahmood Khan Achakzai and Raja Nasir Abbas through their counsel advocate Moazzam Butt.<\/p>\n<p>It argued that detaining elected representatives undermines the electoral mandate given to them by the public.<\/p>\n<p>The petition urged the court to summon all detained lawmakers, examine the legality of their custody and order their immediate release.<\/p>\n<p>It also raises the constitutional question of whether state institutions can restrict the political activities and parliamentary role of elected representatives.<\/p>\n<p>According to the petition, targeting lawmakers on the basis of their political affiliation violates articles 4, 14, 17 and 25 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>It also calls on the authorities to disclose the whereabouts of the detained lawmakers and clarify the legal grounds for their detention.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners maintained that even the extraordinary powers granted under articles 232, 234 and 245 of the Constitution cannot override fundamental rights of citizens.<\/p>\n<p>They argue that the imposition of governor\u2019s rule does not suspend those rights and that all government actions remain subject to judicial review by the Federal Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n<p>It stated that state machinery cannot be used to suppress political dissent or render elected representatives ineffective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A constitutional petition has been filed in the Federal Constitutional Court challenging the arrest and detention of nine lawmakers, including former chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sohail Afridi and assembly speaker Babar Saleem Swati. The petition was filed by opposition leaders Mahmood Khan Achakzai and Raja Nasir Abbas through their counsel advocate Moazzam Butt. It argued that detaining elected representatives undermines the electoral mandate given to them by the public. The petition urged the court to summon all detained lawmakers, examine the legality of their custody and order their immediate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}