The Election Commission of Pakistan has notified 39 returned MNAs as PTI lawmakers following the Supreme Court order on the reserved seats case. The notification for the 39 MNAs was issued on Wednesday.

“The following returned candidates against general seats of National Assembly are declared to have been returned as candidates of PTI,” said the official handout that also contained the names of lawmakers.

The 39 MNAs are Amjad Ali Khan, Saleem Rehman, Sohail Sultan, Muhammad Bashir Khan, Mehboob Shah, Junaid Akbar, Ali Khan Jadoon, Asad Qaiser, Shahram Khan, Mujahid Al, Anwar Taj, Fazal Muhammad Khan, Arbab Amir Ayub, Shandana Gulzar Khan, Sher Ali Arbab, Asif Khan, Syed Shah Ahad Ali Shah, Shahid Khan, Nasim Ali Shah, Sher Afzal Khan, Usama Ahmed Mela, Shafqat Abbas, Ali Afzal Sahi, Rai Haider Ali Khan, Nisar Ahmed, Rana Atif, Changaze Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Ali Sarfraz, Khurram Shahzad Virk, Sardar Muhammad Latif Khan Khosa, Rai Hassan Nawaz Khan, Malik Muhammad Aamir Dogar, Makhdoom Zain Hussain Qureshi, Rana Muhammad Faraz Noon, Mumtaz Mustafa, Muhammad Shabbir Ali Qureshi, Umber Majeed, Awais Haider Jakhar and Zartaj Gul.

Moreover, the country’s top electoral authority has decided to seek further guidance from the Supreme Court regarding the implementation of the verdict on reserved seats. This came after the conclusion of a meeting on the matter of awarding reserved seats to PTI.

The legal team briefed the ECP on the “legal ambiguities” surrounding the implementation of the verdict.

Sources within the commission stated that the PTI’s party structure was not in place and the ECP seeks the SC’s guidance on the authority under which party tickets should be recognised.

The deadline for submitting party certificates is set for August 6, they added.

Earlier this month, a full-court SC bench set aside orders of the Peshawar High Court and Election Commission of Pakistan to take away reserved seats from the Sunni Ittehad Council. The court ruled that the PTI should be considered a political party and given reserved seats.

“Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was and is a political party which secured and won… general seats in the national and provincial assemblies in the general elections of 2024,” said the majority decision read by Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah.

The decision was made by a majority of eight and announced by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa. However, the majority order was read out by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah.

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In reaction, the PML-N challenged the verdict in the apex court. But the three-judge committee established under the SC Practice and Procedure Act 2023 committee has deferred a proposal to fix the petition.

The minutes of the three-judge Practice and Procedure Committee’s July 18 meeting were issued on Saturday which said that Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa called for ‘urgently’ fixing the review petitions against the reserved seats case ruling for hearing. But two other members – Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Munib Akhtar – were not convinced, citing most of the judges of 13-member bench were on holiday and a detailed order of case was awaited.