PTI submits intra-party election details in ECP

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Wednesday submitted all details of its intra-party elections in the Election Commission of Pakistan to fulfill legal requirement in an ongoing case against the intra-party polls.
PTI Senator Azam Swati submitted all these details with the Election Commission where a hearing in irregularities in intra-party elections of the party was scheduled to be held. The hearing into the case was adjourned till January 2, 2018 due to absence of some Election Commission members.
In the details submitted with the Election Commission, the PTI has provided details about number and names of candidates in its intra-party elections, votes bagged by them and names of the winners.
The Election Commission had given the PTI time till December 27 to submit details of its intra-party elections.
PTI's founding member Yousuf Ali has filed an application in the Election Commission alleging discrepancies in the party's intra-party polls and requested the Commission to declare the elections null and void.
Ali, a former general secretary of the PTI's Swabi chapter, says that intra-party polling process had violated the party's constitution. In the intra-party elections held on June 12 this year, the PTI Chairman Imran Khan's panel had won the polls.
The petitioner's lawyer had told the ECP that the PTI had amended its constitution on May 13 and that the party had not completed the necessary legal formalities while amending the constitution.
The lawyer had argued that the party's constitution can only be changed if there is a two-third majority of the Central Executive Council supporting it. As per the amended constitution, 2.7 million voters had to decide between Imran Khan and party leader Naik Muhammad Khan as their next chairman of the party.
No party member was allowed to choose anybody besides the two sides: Insaf Panel and Ehtesab Panel, he said.
Babar Awan, the PTI's counsel, had argued that the petition could not be heard by the ECP as the intra-party elections could not be challenged through an election petition.
He said that the petitioner had nothing to do with the PTI's intra-party elections and that the elections were held in a transparent manner.