In light of the Supreme Court’s decision, party nominees will now run for office as independent candidates, promising to garner support in the name of the party’s founder, Imran Khan, according to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan.
The now-independent candidates have been given different emblems by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), which has also released a list of the symbols.
The alphabet “K” and the symbol “wicket” were given to PTI’s Waseem Qadir from NA-121 and Sardar Latif Khosa from NA-122, respectively, according to the list.
The election emblem assigned to Afzal Azim from NA-123 was “radio,” whereas Advocate Zameer from NA-124 received the symbol “dolphin.”
Salman Akram from NA-128 received the symbol “racket,” Mian Azhar from NA-129 received the symbol “wicket,” and Zaheer Abbas from NA-127 received the symbol “clock.”
The electoral symbols for Dr. Yasmin Rashid from NA-130 were “laptop,” Nadeem Sherwani from NA-119 was “cricket stump,” Sohail Sultan from NA-4 was given a “goat,” Ali Shah Khan from PK-4 was given “Khusa,” and Advocate Akhtar Khan from PK-5 was given a “pressure cooker.”
The top court on Saturday set aside the January 10 verdict of the Peshawar High Court (PHC), effectively depriving the PTI of its iconic election symbol of the cricket bat in a severe setback to the former ruling party ahead of the February 8 general elections.
Speaking with the media following the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s ruling, PTI attorneys announced that candidates will now run for office as independents in accordance with the court’s order.
They went on to say that PTI has already devised a plan in this area and advised the party’s “massive” voting base to be unconcerned with the situation as it stands.
Barrister Ali Zafar, a crucial member of the PTI legal team, stated that the party will contest the election fiercely even after the Supreme Court decided to adopt the party’s electoral emblem, the “bat.”
Zafar said, “The party is still registered, and its candidates are still eligible to run for office according to the court.”
