Islamabad (Web Desk): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday approached the Supreme Court (SC) to reclaim its ‘bat’ electoral symbol ahead of the February 8 elections.
The petition has been fixed for hearing for tomorrow (Friday).
In its petition, filed under Article 185 of the Constitution, the PTI has challenged the Peshawar High Court (PHC) verdict, which restored the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) order, leading to the revocation of the party’s electoral symbol, ‘bat’.
On December 22, the ECP had stripped the party of its electoral symbol for the February 8 election, saying that it had had failed to hold intra-party in accordance with its prevailing constitution and election laws.
Following this, the PTI had moved the PHC against the decision of the electoral body.
On December 26, a single-member bench of the high court ordered a temporary suspension of the ECP’s decision, instructing the commission to publish PTI’s intra-party poll certificate on its website and restore the party’s election symbol ‘bat’.
Subsequently, the ECP had filed a review petition at the PHC against its December 26 decision which had suspended the electoral body's order and restored the PTI's 'bat' symbol till a final decision on the matter.