PHC restores PTI's electoral symbol, suspends ECP order

PESHAWAR: In a major legal victory for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the Peshawar High Court (PHC) suspended the Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) order, restoring the party's iconic election symbol — “bat” — till a final decision on the petition.

While announcing a verdict reserved on PTI’s petition challenging the Election Commission’s order declaring the intra-party polls as "illegal", the court stated that a double bench will hear the matter after winter vacations.

Earlier, PHC's Justice Kamran Hayat Miankhel remarked that the ECP would have to allot the electoral symbol to PTI as it can’t be revoked after the issuance of the election schedule.

The PHC judge’s remarks came during the hearing of

The party had named the ECP and those who challenged the party elections as respondents in its plea filed today with a request for an urgent hearing of the matter.