{"id":21981,"date":"2024-01-03T12:07:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T07:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=21981"},"modified":"2024-01-03T12:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T07:07:46","slug":"phc-resumes-hearing-on-ecp-plea-in-pti-bat-symbol-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/phc-resumes-hearing-on-ecp-plea-in-pti-bat-symbol-case\/","title":{"rendered":"PHC resumes hearing on ECP plea in PTI &#8216;bat&#8217; symbol case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electoral body had filed a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging its decision to restore the PTI&#8217;s electoral symbol.<\/p>\n<p>PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) resumed hearing on Wednesday on the Election Commission of Pakistan&#8217;s (ECP) petition challenging its single-bench decision on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf&#8217;s (PTI) electoral &#8216;bat&#8217; symbol and intra-party polls.<\/p>\n<p>A hearing is being held on the matter by a single-member bench led by Justice Ejaz Khan.<\/p>\n<p>The ECP&#8217;s lawyer, Sikander Bashir Mohmand, and the PTI&#8217;s legal team, which included Advocates Shah Faisal Uthmankhel and Qazi Anwar, appeared in court.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/bat-in-or-out-the-phc-reserves-its-decision-on-the-ecps-review-petition.html\">&amp;#8216;Bat&amp;#8217; in or out: the PHC reserves its decision on the ECP&amp;#8217;s review petition<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The electoral body had petitioned the high court for a review of its December 26 decision, which had suspended the ECP&#8217;s order and restored the party&#8217;s &#8216;bat&#8217; symbol until a final decision on the matter was reached.<\/p>\n<p>In its order, the ECP declared PTI&#8217;s intra-party polls &#8220;illegal&#8221; and barred it from using the &#8216;bat&#8217; symbol. Following its order, the former ruling party approached the PHC, requesting that its party symbol be restored ahead of the February 8 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/cjp-expresses-his-disapproval-with-the-phcs-order-to-remove-ro.html\">CJP expresses his disapproval with the PHC&amp;#8217;s order to remove RO<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ECP then asked the court to review the PTI&#8217;s intra-party elections and its decision on the election symbol in its petition.<\/p>\n<p>The court had previously heard the ECP&#8217;s counsel&#8217;s arguments and then adjourned the hearing until today (Wednesday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electoral body had filed a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging its decision to restore the PTI&#8217;s electoral symbol. PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) resumed hearing on Wednesday on the Election Commission of Pakistan&#8217;s (ECP) petition challenging its single-bench decision on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf&#8217;s (PTI) electoral &#8216;bat&#8217; symbol and intra-party polls. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2,147],"tags":[10508,836,148,194],"class_list":["post-21981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-bat-symbol","tag-phc","tag-ecp","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}