Pakistan’s top poll body rejects internal polls in Imran Khan’s party, snatches its election symbol of bat – Times of India

ISLAMABAD: In an enormous setback to the celebration of Imran Khan, Pakistan’s prime election commisison on Friday rejected Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s organisational elections and its plea to have cricket bat because the electoral image for the February 8 normal elections. A five-member panel of the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday reserved the decision after concluding the listening to of a number of petitions filed by members of the PTI in opposition to the celebration elections held on December 2 in Peshawar. The panel issued the reserved verdict on Friday, saying that the PTI failed to carry polls based on its celebration Structure. It additionally dominated that the celebration can’t retain the bat because the electoral image. With this determination, Gohar Khan, an in depth aide of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, misplaced his place as chairman of PTI, days after his appointment. After the ECP judgment, the PTI can both problem it within the Supreme Court docket or it could possibly subject its candidate as independents. It might additionally enter into an alliance with one other celebration to permit its candidates use the image of that celebration for elections.