The Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) has allotted symbols to the candidates of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) contesting polls as unbiased candidates after the Supreme Court docket annulled the Peshawar Excessive Court docket’s (PHC) January 10 order.
In a late-night choice, the Supreme Court docket on Saturday upheld the Dec 22 choice of the ECP depriving the PTI of its iconic ballot image — ‘bat’.
A 3-member bench — headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa and comprising Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Justice Musarrat Hilali — introduced the decision after a day-long listening to.
The choice was introduced minutes earlier than the expiry of the fifth prolonged deadline by the election watchdog for the intending candidates for the submission of social gathering tickets.
Following the decision, PTI chairman Barrister Gohar mentioned that every one social gathering candidates would contest elections independently.
Right here’s the listing of symbols allotted to PTI candidates:
Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, who has been disadvantaged of his submit of PTI chairman after Supreme Court docket judgement, was allotted “teapot” as election image whereas Shaukat Yousafzai’s image has been “racket”.
PTI’s Shahryar Afridi will contest election with “bottle” image, Shandana Gulzar has been given the image of “bowl”.
PTI senior chief Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s kids Mehr Bano Qureshi and Zain Hussain Qureshi have been allotted electoral symbols chimta (tongs) for NA-151 and shoe for NA-150 constituencies of Multan, respectively.
Umair Niazi will battle the election with the image ‘door’ on Mianwali’s NA-90 seat. Shoaib Shaheen has been given a ‘shoe’ to contest elections in Islamabad’s NA-46 constituency.
‘Piyala’ (bowl) will characterize Shandana Gulzar in NA-30 constituency of Peshawar and ‘kettle’ will characterize Barrister Gohar Ali Khan in NA-10 constituency of Buner.
Jamshed Dasti, who’s contesting on two Nationwide Meeting seats from Muzaffargardh, has been allotted ‘harmonium’ for NA-175 seat and ‘aeroplane’ for NA-176.
In line with the returning officer, in NA-177, PTI’s Maqsood Khan Jatoi has been allotted the image of a Hookah, and in NA-178, PTI’s Daud Khan Jatoi has been given the image of a keychain.
PTI’s Shairam Tarkai from PA-20 and Rangzeb Khan from PK-49 have been given the image of a dove.
In PK-50, peacock has been allotted to PTI’s Aqibullah Khan, and in PK-51, Abdul Karim has been given the image of a kettle.
However, PMLN has been allotted the ‘lion’ image, PPPP ‘arrow’, JI ‘scale’, PTI-Nazaryati ‘batsman’, IPP ‘eagle’, MQM-P ‘kite’ and TLP allotted ‘crane’.