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The PTI on Monday said it would challenge the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to declare its intra-party polls as unconstitutional and revoke the iconic ‘bat’ symbol in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) tomorrow (Tuesday). The development comes after the electoral watchdog last week voided, for the second time in less than a month, PTI’s internal elections in which Barrister Gohar Ali Khan was easily elected as the party’s new chairman. The verdict came following a first-of-its-kind microscopic examination of the inner workings of a political party and declared the party ineligible to obtain an election symbol to contest the upcoming general elections. “It is held that...
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PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Monday directed the Election Commission of Pakistan to respond to a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf petition that sought orders for the holding of the upcoming elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through judicial officers under the supervision of the judiciary. Fixing Dec 18 for next hearing into the petition filed by spokesperson for the PTI and senior lawyer Mohammad Muazzam Butt, Justice Shakeel Ahmad and Justice Wiqar Ahmad gave the ECP a fortnight to file that response. The petitioner requested the court to ask the ECP as well as the province’s caretaker government and governor not to interfere in...
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