In a major legal victory for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday reinstated the “bat” symbol for the party and declared the “null and void” the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) order that had deprived the party of its traditional electoral symbol. The verdict was announced after PHC had reserved […]
Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi on Tuesday were indicted by an accountability court in Rawalpindi in the Toshakhana case. The decision was announced during a hearing in the case today which was conducted in Adiala jail where the former prime minister is currently incarcerated in the case. A […]
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was questioned by the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday about why it was adamant about having a bat as its electoral symbol for the upcoming elections on February 8. “Why are you insisting on getting bat as an election symbol?” Barrister Ali Zafar, the party’s attorney, was questioned by the […]
Imran Khan, the founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was briefly detained and then arrested in connection with the GHQ attack case pertaining to the violent protests that broke out on May 9 across the nation last year. The PTI founder, who is currently incarcerated in connection with cipher and graft allegations, was summoned by […]
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi has summoned the PTI founder, who is already behind bars in cipher and grafts cases, in May 9 cases on Tuesday (today). However, the PTI founder attended the court’s proceedings via video link as he could not be produced in the court by Adiala jail authorities owing to security […]
Pemra’s counsel Haroon Duggal said this during the hearing of a petition filed by the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) last year against Pemra’s decision to bar all TV channels from airing Imran’s speeches and press conferences. The hearing was presided over by Justice Shams Mehmood Mirza. After the hearing, Justice Mirza directed the media […]
Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), expressed optimism on Tuesday that elections would go place on February 8 and noted that the Supreme Court (SC) has previously ruled against any postponement of the voting process. The PTI chairman expressed hope to the media that the polls won’t be delayed because […]
The Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) intra-court appeal was accepted by the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday, upholding the electoral watchdog’s ruling against PTI’s intra-party polls. The ECP had appealed the high court’s ruling on December 22 that declared the PTI’s internal elections invalid and that the party should not have continued to use […]
As the election process went to the appellate stage on Monday, dozens of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidates filed complaints with the election tribunals challenging the rejection of their nomination papers by the appropriate returning officers during inspection. Invoking Section 63 of the Elections Act, a lawyer located in Lahore has simultaneously objected to the acceptance […]
In an attempt to overturn the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) single-bench verdict regarding Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) famous electoral “bat” emblem, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) moved the court on Saturday. The ruling on PTI’s appeal against the ECP’s ruling, which had deemed the party’s internal polls “illegal” and barred it from using the “bat” […]
