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Do you think PTI has a future without Imran Khan?

  • Yes

    Votes: 22 19.6%

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    Votes: 80 71.4%

  • Only if senior leadership is released

    Votes: 10 8.9%
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Omar Ayub Khan says PTI want to ‘register their protest’​


Speaking in the National Assembly, PTI-backed MNA Omar Ayub thanked the people of his constituency and Imran Khan. He said that the “PTI members” gathered in the assembly wanted to register their protest.

“The oath we have taken states that we will obey the rules.

This House is incomplete […] point of order is on this technical point. Our women members are in jail […] those that were supposed to be sworn in were not named in the list,” he said, calling on Gohar Ali Khan to speak.
 
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PTI notifies office bearers ahead of schedule after ‘no contest’​

Ikram Junaidi
March 1, 2024

PTI Secretary General Omar Ayub and Chairman Gohar Khan. — File photos

PTI Secretary General Omar Ayub and Chairman Gohar Khan. — File photos

ISLAMABAD: In a late-night development, PTI announced that Barrister Gohar Ali Khan and Omar Ayub were elected the party’s chairman and general secretary, respectively, after their opponents withdrew nomination papers.

Similarly, provincial presidents of Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapters were also announced. An election will now only be held to elect the Balochistan chapter president.

In Balochistan, three candidates, Amin Khan Jogazai, Dawood Shah, and Munir Ahmed Baloch, will contest the election on March 3.

PTI was set to hold intra-party elections on March 3, for which a number of leaders submitted their nomination papers as panels.

Gohar, Omar to be chariman and secy general, respectively, after their rivals ‘withdraw’ papers
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But a majority of those leaders withdrew nomination papers only two days before the election, PTI’s Federal Election Commissioner Raoof Hasan told.

In the absence of opponents on most seats, he was left with no option but to notify the unopposed winners.

According to a notice issued by Mr Hasan and seen by Dawn, there was only one candidate each for the posts of chairman; secretary general; and Punjab, KP and Sindh presidents.

“There shall be no polling for the stated five positions. Polling shall take place only in Quetta for the election of President Balochistan Panel,” the notice said, adding that the federal election commissioner will declare the final result on March 3.
 

PTI’s ex-lawmakers move high court against ‘non-provision’ of documents by ECP, ROs​

Bureau Report
March 2, 2024

PESHAWAR: Three former lawmakers of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and contestants of general elections on Friday moved Peshawar High Court against non-provision of relevant election documents to them by Election Commission of Pakistan and the returning officers concerned.

Almost identical petitions were filed by former provincial ministers Kamran Khan Bangash and Taimoor Saleem Khan and ex-deputy speaker of the provincial assembly Mehmood Jan seeking directives of the court for ECP, Peshawar district returning officer and returning officers to forthwith provide them attested copies of Forms 45, 46, 47, 48 and 49 of their respective provincial assembly constituencies.

They have requested the court to declare as illegal the act of the said respondents of not providing them the attested copies of the said forms.

They have sought further directives of the court for the respondents to provide them CCTV footage of the consolidation proceedings by the returning officers of their constituencies.

Allege returning officers manipulated results in their constituencies

The petitioners Kamran Bangash, Taimoor Saleem and Mehmood Jan contested the Feb 8 general elections from PK-82, PK-79 and PK-72 constituencies respectively.

They claimed that as per the Form 45 received by their polling agents from the presiding officers in each of the polling stations, they had won against their rival candidates with a big margin. However, they stated that the returning officers concerned had manipulated the results and issued controversial Form 47 (provisional results) declaring their rivals as returned candidates.

The petitions, filed through senior lawyer Ali Gohar Durrani, include ECP through its secretary, the Peshawar district returning officer and the returning officers concerned as respondents.

The petitioners contended that the provisions of the Elections Act, 2017, were specifically violated as neither the said forms were uploaded on the ECP website as mandated by section 95 (10) nor they were allowed for public inspection of the documents as per section 100 of the Act.

The petitioners stated that following massive pre-poll rigging in various modes and forms, finally the polls were held on Feb 8.

They stated that after the closure of the polling process, which was marred by disruption of cellular phone service, the votes were finally counted and signed Form 45 were issued to the petitioners’ polling agents clearly reflecting the petitioners to have won the elections.

The petitioners claimed that following Form 45, they came for the result compilation for the provisional consolidation before the returning officer, however, entry was not allowed to them or their polling agents from 9pm on Feb 8 till 6am the next morning.

They stated that when entry was allowed to them they were merely told that they had ended up not as returned candidates, as was the requirement of Form 45 results, but instead their votes were reduced and other candidates were declared as returned on the basis of some manipulated Form 45, which despite the clear mandate of the Elections Act, 2027, had not been shared with the petitioners.

The petitioners informed that they had approached the high court for issuing directives to the respondents for consolidation of the results on the basis of Form 45 so issued by the presiding officers and the court had then issued directives in this regard.

However, they stated that ECP had rejected their respective petitions through short order while no detailed reasoning was yet available. They stated that the ECP had directed the petitioners to approach the election tribunals.

They contended that they had written applications to the ROs, DRO and also the district election commissioner (DEC) seeking the attested copies of Form 45, 46, 47, 48 and 49. However, they added, the respondents had been shifting the burden on each other for the purpose.

They contended that finally the DEC had written to the DRO to share the attested copies of the forms so requested with the petitioners by giving reason that the forms were still in the custody of the ROs.
 
The Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ali Amin Gandapur, has announced that around nine lac eligible people in the province will receive Rs 10,000 each during Ramadan.

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Zain Qureshi terms ECP decision on reserved seats ‘constitutionally and legally incorrect’​


PTI leader Zain Qureshi has termed the electoral watchdog’s decision to distribute the reserved seats meant for Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) amongst other parties as “constitutionally and legally wrong”.

Speaking on Geo News programme, Zain cited that the Constitution trumped the Election Act. “You have accepted the existence of SIC in the National Assembly. If you have accepted us in the NA, you have to give us reserved seats,” he asserted.

The PTI leader added that the ECP decision would be challenged in court.
 
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