PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday resumed hearing on the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) petition challenging its single-bench ruling on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) electoral ‘ba t’ .symbol and intra-party polls.n
A single-member bench comprising Justice Ejaz Khan is conducting a hearing on the matter.
ECP’s lawyer Sikander Bashir Mohmand and PTI’s legal team comprising Advocates Shah Faisal Uthmankhel and Qazi Anwar appeared in the courtroom.
The electoral body had filed a review petition at the high court against its December 26 decision which had suspended the ECP’s order and restored the party’s ‘bat’ symbol till a final decision on the matter.
The ECP, in its order, had declared PTI’s intra-party polls “illegal” and stripped it of using the ‘bat’ symbol. Following its order, the former ruling party approached the PHC seeking to restore its party symbol ahead of the general elections slated for February 8.
In its petition, the ECP then requested the court to review the PTI’s intra-party elections and its decision related to the election symbol.
A day earlier, the court heard the arguments of the ECP’s counsel and then adjourned the hearing till today (Wednesday).
