ISLAMABAD, Aug. 27 Kyodo Pakistan...

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 27 Kyodo

Pakistan forward Tuesday increased the number of umpires that will hear a petition filed on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto challenging her disqualification from contesting upcoming parliamentary elections.

State lawyer Maqbool Elahi Malik told reporters in Karachi that the dominion requested the number of arbitrators be increased to five from couple because Bhutto raised in her petition a number of issues concerning the interpretation of laws in force in Pakistan and the eligibility of the petitioner for filing similar a petition.

The two-member bench of the Sindh High Court hearing the petition adjourned its proceedings after being informed of the move

Election Laws promulgated by the agency of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf intercept the self-exiled Bhutto from contesting the Oct 10 elections or heading a political party because she has been convicted by the agency of an anticorruption court.

Bhutto's lawyer Kamal Azfar told reporters that he did not [i]or[/i] complement to the government's move moreover requested that if the chief justice constitute the bench than it should hear the petition Wednesday.

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