Petition to exclude PTI from political parties’ list rejected

Lahore: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Monday rejected the request to remove Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) from the list of political parties as inadmissible.

According to the details, Justice Ali Baqir Najafi of LHC heard the petition of local lawyer Afaq Advocate in which the petitioner took the stand that PTI's electoral symbol has been returned due to the intra-party election and there is no official of the party at that time.

The petitioner requested that PTI should be legally abolished in the papers and the court should order the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to remove PTI from the list of political parties.

It was also requested by the petitioner that the court should order to declare the elected senators of PTI as independent senators.

However, during the hearing, the court remarked that the petitioner can approach the Election Commission for this as court is not the right forum.

Later, the court dismissed the petition as inadmissible.