The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has called upon Gohar Ali Khan, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) chairman, to appear in a hearing regarding the intra-party election case scheduled for December 18.
A five-member bench of the ECP will conduct the session at 10 am. The hearing follows a plea filed by PTI founding member Akbar S. Babar against the party’s internal elections.
In addition to summoning Gohar Ali Khan, the ECP has called upon several prominent members of PTI, including the party’s chief election commissioner Niazullah Niazi, Umar Ayub, Haleem Adil Sheikh, Yasmin Rashid, Ali Amin Gandapur, and RO central secretariat Sardar Masroof.
The notice is a response to the notice issued to PTI after Akbar S. Babar’s appeal, which challenged the legitimacy of the party’s intra-party elections and described them as a “drama.”
Details of PTI’s Intra-Party Elections
Gohar Ali Khan was elected unopposed as the new chairman of PTI, succeeding the incarcerated former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The internal polls of PTI were conducted last Saturday under the ECP’s orders, with members voting through an online app.
Niazullah Niazi, the PTI election commissioner, revealed that former federal minister Omar Ayub Khan was elected as the party’s secretary-general, and Yasmin Rashid, a jailed former provincial health minister, was elected as the party’s president in Punjab.
