{"id":22631,"date":"2024-01-12T11:52:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T06:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=22631"},"modified":"2024-01-12T11:52:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T06:52:06","slug":"pti-bat-symbol-sc-hears-ecps-appeal-of-the-phc-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/pti-bat-symbol-sc-hears-ecps-appeal-of-the-phc-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"“PTI bat symbol”: SC hears ECP’s appeal of the PHC ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHC notifies ECP about PTI’s motion for contempt of court against the electoral body.<\/p>\n

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) appeal against the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) decision to reinstate the bat as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) electoral symbol was heard by the Supreme Court on Friday.<\/p>\n

Hearing the appeal of the electoral body is a three-judge panel of the highest court, led by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa and consisting of Justices Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Musarat Hilali.<\/p>\n

The SC website and YouTube channel are providing live coverage of the case’s proceedings.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the ECP order to revoke the election symbol “bat” and reject PTI intra-party elections was overruled by a two-member panel of the PHC.<\/p>\n

Together with six other party leaders, PTI leader Barrister Gohar Ali Khan filed a joint appeal in the high court asking for the ECP order to be ruled unlawful and without jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

However, the ECP filed a petition with the Supreme Court on Thursday, requesting permission to appeal the PHC short order under Article 185(3) of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

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In the appeal, the electoral board questioned whether the high court was correct in dismissing the writ petition with a brief order that lacked specific justification given the significance of the case.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the PHC served notice to the ECP over PTI’s motion to hold the electoral body in contempt of court for allegedly disobeying its directive on the intra-party polls.<\/p>\n

The petition was heard by a two-judge panel made up of Justices Shakil Ahmad and Waqar Ahmad.<\/p>\n

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Shah Faisal Ilyas and Qazi Muhammad Anwar, PTI attorneys, were in court.<\/p>\n

Despite the PHC’s directive, the PTI claimed that the ECP had neglected to post the certificate of the party’s intra-party polling on its website.<\/p>\n

The appeal stated that the ECP ruling from December 22, 2023, which declared the PTI’s intra-party elections illegitimate and stripped it of its electoral symbol, the “bat,” was declared illegal by the PHC on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Because the ECP disregarded the court’s orders, the PTI asked the court to start a contempt of court case against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PHC notifies ECP about PTI’s motion for contempt of court against the electoral body. ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) appeal against the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) decision to reinstate the bat as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) electoral symbol was heard by the Supreme Court on Friday. Hearing the appeal of the electoral body […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2,147],"tags":[10297,10362,10689,148],"class_list":["post-22631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-election","tag-election-2024","tag-pti-bat-symbol","tag-ecp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22631","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=22631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}