IslamabadThe court said Sohail Afridi no longer holds office.
Pakistan’s government imposed emergency rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, and Chief Minister Afridi is in custody.
The Federal Constitutional Court ruled the petition moot, and the petitioner may refile if the emergency lifts and Afridi returns.
Petitioner Sher Afzal Khan Marwat says he will file a challenge to the emergency itself on Friday.
An opposition alliance suspended talks until it meets jailed Imran Khan and receives details of his health.
How each outlet framed it
- Dawn
- reports the FCC dismissing the Afridi petition as infructuous, with the bench's chief justice citing the emergency and governor's rule
- Dawn leans critical
- quotes TTAP calling governor's rule a 'robbery' and a 'midnight assault' on the Constitution, and suspending talks until Imran Khan's health is disclosed