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Nadia Malik, Head of Geo Television’s election cell, says that intra-party elections are a farce in Pakistan but the ECP did not hold other parties accountable, letting them scot-free. “They are part of a pattern of the Pakistani state using administrative measures, along with coercion, to deny PTI a pathway toward electoral victory,” he said, referring to the high popularity of Khan.

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Supporters of Imran Khan install a giant bat symbol along a roadside in Karachi in May 2013 Īrif Rafiq, president of Vizier Consulting, a New York-based political risk advisory company, said the decision to block PTI symbol is “politically motivated”. Khan, who was the national team captain when the country won its only World Cup trophy in 1992, leveraged his successful sporting career to gather popular support as a politician. “The cricket bat was unjustly revoked through an illegal order,” PTI lawyer Syed Ali Zafar said.Īn attempt by the PTI to get the ban overturned failed as Pakistan’s Supreme Court last week upheld the election commission’s decision, which is significant to the PTI because it is reminiscent of Khan’s success as a former cricketer.

The ECP also passed similar orders against 13 marginal political parties.Ĭritics and supporters of PTI have deemed it a deliberate attempt to curtail the party’s success in the elections. This rendered the party ineligible for having a symbol for the 2024 elections.Īn intra-party election conducted by the PTI on Jwas not recognised by the ECP on the grounds that it was not “just and fair”. The ECP on December 22 omitted PTI’s bat symbol on the technical grounds that the party had not held intra-party elections – required under law. So why are party symbols important, and will the ban on the PTI symbol harm the party? Why did PTI lose its bat? Sharif, who returned to Pakistan in October after several years of self-imposed exile, has rejected the allegations. Bhutto claimed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) acted under pressure from former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has been accused of cutting a deal with the country’s military that controls most levers of power from behind the scenes. Meanwhile, the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, has also alleged that seven of his party’s national and provincial assembly candidates have being assigned the wrong electoral symbols in the eastern Punjab province. PTI members and supporters say the blocking of its symbol, a cricket bat, is a ploy by the military-backed caretaker government to ensure the party’s defeat.

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