{"id":12387,"date":"2025-02-03T13:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T08:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=12387"},"modified":"2025-02-03T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T08:48:04","slug":"election-commission-schedules-pti-intra-party-case-hearing-for-february-11-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=12387","title":{"rendered":"Election Commission Schedules PTI Intra-Party Case Hearing for February 11, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad: The Election Commission has scheduled the hearing for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)&#8217;s intra-party case for February 11, 2025. Notices have been issued to PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar and Rauf Hasan in this regard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Election Commission has also issued notices to Akbar S Babar and other petitioners in the case.<br \/>\nDuring the previous hearing, PTI had requested additional time to submit its response, to which the Election Commission ruled that the hearing would be held on February 11.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Background of the Case:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nPTI held its first intra-party elections on June 9, 2022, which were challenged by the Election Commission and heard for approximately one and a half years. In November 2023, the Election Commission declared these elections null and void, giving the party 20 days to hold new elections to retain its electoral symbol, the &#8220;bat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PTI promptly held new elections on December 2, 2023, but the Election Commission once again declared them invalid. The Election Commission argued that PTI&#8217;s Secretary-General had not appointed a federal election commissioner for these elections.<\/p>\n<p>Following various objections from the Election Commission, PTI submitted a detailed response regarding its intra-party elections, asserting that it is an active and legitimate political party and that its electoral process should be recognized.<\/p>\n<p>After reviewing all of PTI&#8217;s documents, the Election Commission, on March 3, 2024, allowed the party to hold intra-party elections once again. Following this decision, PTI called a general body meeting on January 31, 2024, for its elections and informed the Election Commission on February 21, 2024, after obtaining approval.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this entire process, PTI has so far succeeded in retaining its electoral symbol, the &#8220;bat,&#8221; and continues to exercise its constitutional rights under the 2017 Election Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Election Commission has scheduled the hearing for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)&#8217;s intra-party case for February 11, 2025. Notices have been issued to PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar and Rauf Hasan in this regard. The Election Commission has also issued notices to Akbar S Babar and other petitioners in the case. During the previous hearing, PTI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[1743,172,1374,5119,1831,72],"class_list":["post-12387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-akbar-s-babar","tag-election-commission","tag-electoral-symbol","tag-gohar-khan","tag-intra-party-elections","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}