KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday threw out a petition against an order of the Election Commission of Pakistan that transferred an election petition against the victory of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on a provincial assembly seat from the Karachi election tribunal to the Hyderabad election tribunal.

The petition against the ECP order was filed by Syed Ghous Ali Shah, a leader of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, who lost a provincial assembly seat to the chief minister.

Qaim Ali Shah, a candidate of the Pakistan People`s Party, had won the provincial assembly seat (PS-29) in the 2013 general elections. His victory was challenged through an election petition by Syed Ghous Ali Shah, who emerged the runner-up.

Later, the CM moved another application in the ECP seeking transfer of the election petition against him to any other tribunal. But the CEC dismissed his questioning the credentials of the presiding officer.

The CM assailed the rejection of his transfer application by the ECP through a constitutional petition in the SHC that on Feb 21 ordered the ECP to revisit within 20 days its verdict of dismissing the CM`s plea seeking transfer of the election petition against him from the Karachi election tribunal.

The ECP later allowed the CM`s plea for transfer of election petition against him to another election tribunal.