{"id":33972,"date":"2023-12-11T00:27:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T00:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/pti-seeks-immediate-allocation-of-bat-symbol\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T00:27:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T00:27:55","slug":"pti-seeks-immediate-allocation-of-bat-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pti-seeks-immediate-allocation-of-bat-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI seeks immediate allocation of \u2018bat\u2019 symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>\u2022 Says depriving party of its election symbol is pre-poll rigging<br \/>\u2022 Gohar asks ECP to issue party\u2019s poll certificate without delay<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Teh\u00adr\u00adeek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday exp\u00adre\u00adssed reservations over the Election Commission of Pakistan\u2019s (ECP) \u201cdil\u00adly-dallying tactics\u201d in granting the party its election symbol, the \u2018bat\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The party has called for immediate action from the electoral body to avoid further complications, stressing that it had already submitted all the required documents to the commission after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1794674\">holding intra-party polls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, a PTI spokesperson emphasised the urgency of the matter, urging the Lahore High Court (LHC) to expedite the hearing of Barrister Ali Zafar\u2019s petition to avert the \u201ctragic death of democracy\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1793771\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Mr Zafar\u2019s petition challenges the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1791793\">ECP\u2019s Nov 23 order<\/a>, which annulled PTI\u2019s intra-party polls held in June last year, giving the former ruling party 20 days for a fresh election if it did not want to lose its electoral symbol. Subsequently, the party conducted the polls on Dec 2, electing Barrister Gohar Khan as its new chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson alleged that the PTI was the target of the worst state repression and ongoing political engineering before the elections, adding that all the evidence and signs were enough to expose the state\u2019s ambitions to commit historical electoral fraud in the coming general election.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that \u201cthe country\u2019s most popular political party\u201d, which he claimed enjoyed the support of over three-fourths of the eligible voting population, was being subjected to a conspiracy and a \u201ctechnical knockout\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The party official said that all unconstitutional, illegal and undemocratic tactics were repeatedly being used to sideline former PTI chairman Imran Khan, currently imprisoned in Adiala Jail, and his party from the political arena.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticised the current governments in Pakistan as unconstitutional and undemocratic, alleging that their main objective was to undermine Mr Khan\u2019s public mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson highlighted the May 9 incidents, claiming a concerted effort to dismantle PTI and suppress its supporters, including the detenti\u00adon of Mr Khan and other party workers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1774736\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Accusations were also levelled against the ECP and its leadership for discriminatory practices and decrees aimed at erasing PTI\u2019s political presence. The spokesperson asserted that these actions reflected a desperate attempt by anti-democratic forces to exclude the party from politics.<\/p>\n<p>The official also condemned the ECP\u2019s decision to invalidate PTI\u2019s intra-party elections and the demand for a re-election within 20 days.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that it was unprecedented in the country\u2019s history that Imran Khan, PTI\u2019s founder chairman-for-life, voluntarily stepped down from the position for the sake of democracy and the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said that instead of handing over the chairmanship of the party to someone from his family, Mr Khan nominated a capable and loyal party worker as a candidate for the post of chairman in the intra-party elections.<\/p>\n<p>After completing its intra-party elections on Dec 2 and submitting all necessary documents to the ECP, the PTI expressed dismay at the ECP\u2019s failure to issue the party\u2019s election symbol. Since general elections are around the corner, this delay by the ECP was a severe form of pre-poll rigging, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that withholding the \u2018bat\u2019 symbol is tantamount to undermining the country\u2019s Constitution, democracy, transparent elections and political identity from millions of Pakistanis.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, PTI Chairman Barris\u00adter Gohar Khan called on the ECP to issue party\u2019s poll certificate without delay. \u201cFree and fair election in any constitutional democracy means the participation of all political parties in the process and the election symbol of a political party signifies that process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Dawn, December 10th, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Says depriving party of its election symbol is pre-poll rigging\u2022 Gohar asks ECP to issue party\u2019s poll certificate without delay ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Teh\u00adr\u00adeek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday exp\u00adre\u00adssed reservations over the Election Commission of Pakistan\u2019s (ECP) \u201cdil\u00adly-dallying tactics\u201d in granting the party its election symbol, the \u2018bat\u2019. The party has called for immediate action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33973,"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\/10071651108653c.jpg?r=072503","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33972","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\/33972","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=33972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}