Imran Khan-led PTI loses iconic ‘bat’ electoral symbol as Pak SC declares intra-party polls ‘null and void’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court late Saturday night declared null and void the intra-party polls of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and deprived the party of the ‘bat’ as election symbol, settling the raging controversy over the award of the iconic electoral symbol.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had challenged the verdict of the two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) which on Wednesday restored the cricket bat as the electoral symbol of the PTI party while validating its elections.
A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Justice Musarrat Hilali heard the ECP’s petition and reserved its judgment after the hearing, which was announced late Saturday night. PTI
