Newly elected PTI Chairman Gohar Ali Khan has urged the Supreme Court to get the party’s rights back.
Talking to the media after being elected the party chief on Saturday morning, the lawyer also requested the chief justice of Pakistan not to return his official vehicles.
He further said that the people’s voices should be heard, adding that this time they would be. He added that he would fulfil his responsibilities as the successor of the PTI founder.
Since 1960, no election has been scrutinised as much as the PTI’s, Khan maintained.
عمران خان چیئرمین تھے عمران خان چیئرمین ہیں اور انشاءاللہ عمران خان تاحیات چیئرمین رہیں گے - @BarristerGohar #اب_صرف_عمران_خان
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He also reminded everyone that the Supreme Court had ordered to investigate the foreign funding of all political parties, while only the PTI’s were probed.
Reacting to Barrister Gohar’s election as the PTI chairman, former party leader Pervaiz Khattak said the 2012 intra-party elections were correct as opposed to the ones just conducted. He also questioned the poll, saying there were no voters and no one was given an opportunity to contest. He called the election an eyewash.
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“If such dictation continues, how will there be democracy?” he questioned.
Khattak further claimed that previously, sham elections were also held on fake documents and asked the election commission to take action against the PTI’s intra-party poll.
Moreover, Akbar S. Babar, the estranged co-founder of the PTI, said he would challenge the decision of the intra-party election, and also asked the Supreme Court to take notice.
He denied the PTI chief election commissioner’s claims that he didn’t appear to file his nomination, saying he went to the PTI central secretariat in Islamabad himself with his associates. He said that when he asked the party representatives for nomination papers and voters list, they said they didn’t exist and that the whole exercise was mere formality to please the election commission.
Meanwhile, PTI Election Commissioner Niazullah Niazi has said that a notification for the rest of the office-bearers would be issued on Sunday. He further said the PTI president will also be elected as per the Constitution.
He added that incumbent president, Parvez Elahi, was still part of a panel and had not been excluded from the poll. He also said that the party respected the institutions.
