Pakistan, Nov. 13 -- The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday reserved its verdict on petitions seeking to halt local government elections in the federal capital and suspend the election schedule. During the hearing, the petitioner's counsel argued that if the election schedule was not suspended, candidates would have spent millions of rupees on their campaigns.

Justice Umair Majid Malik remarked that if someone chose to spend millions of rupees, it was not the court's responsibility. He observed that it was alarming if candidates spent Rs10 million on an election but declared expenditure of only Rs 100,000.

Justice Umair Majid Malik heard a petition filed by Chaudhry Amjad Ali. The petitioner's counsel, Adil Aziz Qazi, submitted that...