Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Barrister Gohar Ali Khan Saturday announced that the party would approach the Peshawar High Court or the Supreme Court against the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision stripping of the former ruling party’s iconic election symbol — ‘bat’.
The PTI will likely be playing its election innings without the symbol as the ECP had a day earlier termed its intra-party polls “unconstitutional” and revoked its claim on the electoral symbol.
Talking to journalists outside Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Barrister Gohar said that PTI’s petition for regaining the ‘bat’ electoral symbol would be filed on Tuesday morning, adding that consultation in this regard had almost been completed.
Without naming the ECP, the PTI leader said that all of their efforts were aimed at depriving his party of the 227 reserved seats. The PTI leader saw a conspiracy behind the ECP’s recent order.
Responding to a question, Gohar said: “ECP’s order is not sustainable. It is contradictory.” He was confident that PTI would get relief when they challenged the order in the court.
“[PTI’s] electoral symbol will be restored,” hoped Gohar. The PTI leader said that his party was waiting for the certified copy of the ECP. To another query, he said that the PTI could challenge the ECP’s order in the apex court under Article 184 of the Constitution.
“Imran Khan was, is and will be the chairman of the PTI,” the barrister said, adding that he was fulfilling the responsibilities assigned by Khan. Gohar further said that he would continue to deliver the responsibilities until Khan comes out of jail.
