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- January 3, 2024
- Kainat Shakeel
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The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday revoked the stay order and restored the ECP decision to declare PTI intra-party polls null and void and stripping it of its election symbol “bat”, as Reported in the News.
The Peshawar High Court announced the verdict on PTI’s petition challenging the ECP’s verdict, which had stripped PTI of using the ‘bat’ symbol on 26th December. The single-member bench comprising Justice Ejaz Khan announced the reserved verdict on a review appeal filed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) against the January 26 single-member bench order of PHC.
On 22nd December the ECP in its order, had declared PTI’s intra-party polls “illegal” and stripped
it by using a bat as its symbol in the election.
Barrister Gohar Khan and Advocate Anwar represented the PTI in this case. The election commission’s lawyer Sikander Bashir Mohmand and PTI’s legal team including
Advocates Shah Faisal Uthmankhel and Qazi Anwar appeared in the courtroom.
The ECP filed a petition in the Peshawar High Court by requesting the court to review the PTI’s intra-party election and its decision to use “bat” as their symbol in the election of 2024.
PHC announced that the Election Commission of Pakistan is directed to proceed with the election
process as per its constitutional mandate as the interim order of the court passed in favor of the PTI is hereby recalled.
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PTI’s former chairman Barrister Gohar Khan responding to the media in Rawalpindi said that his party would move the apex court after due deliberations, noting that the Supreme Court “would not let this matter slide.”
“The Supreme Court has already stated that revoking a party’s symbol is tantamount to
disbanding the entire party,” the PTI leader said, hoping that his party would get relief from the
top court. If the Supreme Court does not allow them to use the bat as the symbol every PTI ticket holder will compete as an Independent candidate in the general election which will be held on 8th February 2024, but we will not boycott the election.