The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) High Court has suspended two separate orders of Legislative Assembly Speaker Sardar Ghulam Sadiq whereby he had accepted ‘resignations’ of five MLAs, supporting a no-confidence resolution against Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed.

“The orders passed by the Speaker on July 23 and 24 are suspended till further orders,” announced the full court, after hearing final arguments on Friday on a petition filed by 11 MLAs.

The membership of the petitioners would remain intact till the final judgment of the court, which was reserved. The full court was led by Chief Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal and comprised five other judges. Only Justice Chaudhry Munir, who also holds the charge of chief election commissioner, did not sit on the bench.