LHC reserves verdict on maintainability of plea seeking removal of Imran Khan as PTI chair

• Petitioner contends Imran Khan no more eligible to be party chairafter disqualification.
• Requests in plea to order Khan's removal position of party chairman.
• LHC Justice Sajid Mehmood Sethi holds hearing on maintainabilitypf plea.

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday reserved the verdict on the maintainability of a petitionseeking the removal of PTI chief Imran Khan from the position of party chairman.

LHC'sJustice Sajid Mehmood Sethi conducted the hearing on the plea filed byadvocate Muhammad Afaq, which nominates the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and Khan and others as respondents in the case.

The petitioner had maintained in the plea that Khan has become ineligible to hold the party chairman's post after being disqualified by the ECP in the constituency NA-95. He requested the court to order Khan to be removed from the position of party chairman.