PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said that the party had submitted all documents to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) which the latter had demanded from it in the intra-party elections case. “We have also answered all questions asked by the election commission,” he added.
Speaking to reporters outside the ECP building in Islamabad after the hearing of the PTI’s intra-party case, he hoped that the commission would now issue a certificate to the PTI declaring its intra-party elections valid.
Barrister Gohar said that the parliamentary committee had asked the PTI to give names for the committee tasked with the appointment of the new chief justice by 7:00 in the evening. “But our political committee decided that the party will not become part of the process since we deem it unconstitutional from the outset.”
“We had made it clear even on the floor of the National Assembly that the PTI did not agree with these amendments,” the PTI chairman said, adding, “That is why the committee decided to go for a boycott.”
He went on to say that the special committee had never taken up the proposal to form constitutional benches at the provincial level. “The suggestion came out of a sudden.”
ECP adjourns intra-party case hearing
Earlier, a four-member bench of the ECP, headed by Member Sindh Nisar Durrani, adjourned the hearing of the PTI’s intra-party case until November 14.
PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, Akbar S. Babar and Naveed Anjum appeared before the bench.
During the hearing, Barrister Gohar reminded the bench that a high court had barred the election commission from pronouncing a verdict in the case.
Member KP said the commission did not have the authority to order you to hold the elections again.
Akbar, on the occasion, said that the ECP could not order the PTI to hold fresh elections for five years.
PTI’s lawyer Faisal Chaudhry retorted that the party would prove all such statements wrong.
Reporter: Usman Khan