Imran Khan’s PTI lost another battle for its electoral symbol of the bat on Thursday when the Lahore High Court issued a judgment it had reserved a day earlier.
Justice Jawad Hasan of the Lahore High Court dismissed a PTI petition against the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to nullify PTI’s intra-party elections and consequently take away its electoral symbol.
Justice Hasan had reserved the judgment on Wednesday after hearing arguments from the political party and the ECP.
Dismissing the petition filed by local PTI leader Umar Aftab Dhillon, the justice ruled that it was not admissible.
The petition was filed before the Lahore High Court shortly before the party approached the Peshawar High Court with a similar plea last month.
Peshawar High Court initially suspended the ECP decision and restored the intra-party election.
However, on Wednesday Peshawar High Court judge decided on a miscellaneous plea in the same case and reversed the earlier decision, again taking away the bat symbol.
