<\/p>\n
PTI\u2019s Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, who has been nominated for the slot of party chairman, submitted his nomination papers on Friday ahead of the intra-party polls scheduled for tomorrow (December 2).<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the PTI had formally announced<\/a> that Imran would not be contesting intra-party polls due to legal problems and Gohar would contest the elections in his stead as a \u201cstopgap arrangement\u201d.<\/p>\n The party had also announced that the internal elections it was mandated to carry out as per the directives<\/a> of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would be held on December 2. The ECP had last week ordered the PTI to hold intra-party elections within 20 days to retain the bat as its poll symbol.<\/p>\n A statement issued on the party\u2019s official account on X said it had begun the process of receiving nomination papers for the polls. It added that Gohar had also submitted his documents for the party\u2019s top slot.<\/p>\n Gohar\u2019s nomination papers were received by Returning Officer Advocate Sardar Bharji Khan while PTI Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Advocate Niazullah Niazi was also present, the party said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Akbar S. Babar, one of the founding members of the PTI, visited the party\u2019s central secretariat in Islamabad, along with others, earlier today.<\/p>\n Speaking to reporters, he said the purpose of his visit was to gain information about the intra-party polls, nomination papers and voter list.<\/p>\n \u201cMany founding PTI members with us want to take part in this election and they want to know its procedures and that nomination papers be given to us so we can fully participate in tomorrow\u2019s polls,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n However, later he told Dawn.com<\/em> that he was informed by the secretariat staff that \u201cthey do not have nomination papers, voter list and election rules\u201d. He said that he was confused about how he would participate in the polls now.<\/p>\n A day earlier, Babar had rejected<\/a> Imran\u2019s nomination of Gohar, calling it \u201cselection instead of an election\u201d.<\/p>\n In a press statement, Babar, who had filed the foreign funding case against the PTI, said the nomination of the new PTI chairman had raised serious questions about the transparency and credibility of the entire intra-party election process. He had also proposed that the Election Commission of Pakistan appoint \u201cobservers\u201d to monitor the polls.<\/p>\n Separately, the office of the Peshawar division commissioner sent a reminder to PTI CEC Niazi to provide the necessary information so that foolproof security could be provided on polling day.<\/p>\n In the letter, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com<\/em>, the assistant commissioner said that this was required in light of the present security environment where Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was facing a \u201cpeculiar security environment every day\u201d.<\/p>\n It added that law enforcement agencies were \u201cvery particular\u201d about security plans, especially regarding public gatherings since attacks had occurred in the past leading to significant loss of life and property.<\/p>\n It pointed out that no response had been received from the PTI and thus, \u201cnot even the initial work for a security plan\u201d had been carried out. The reminder pointed out that Niazi\u2019s response was immediately required.<\/p>\n Additional reporting by Ali Akbar<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PTI\u2019s Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, who has been nominated for the slot of party chairman, submitted his nomination papers on Friday ahead of the intra-party polls scheduled for tomorrow (December 2). On Wednesday, the PTI had formally announced that Imran would not be contesting intra-party polls due to legal problems and Gohar would contest the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/12\/0120553005b7a3a.jpg?r=205620","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}PTI founding member visits PTI secretariat<\/h2>\n
Security concerns<\/h2>\n