Tue, 21-Oct-2025

PTI announces candidates for Senate election

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced candidates for Senate election which are slated to take place on April 2.

PTI founder Imran Khan approvesed  names of PTI candidates for Senate election

According to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, Sanam Javed is contesting for the women’s seat from Punjab in the Senate while Hamid Khan, Zulfi Bukhari and Yasmin Rashid will contest the general seat from Punjab.

Ayesha Bano and Rubina Naz are candidates for women’s seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azam Swati and Arshad Hussain are candidates for technocrat seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Murad Saeed, Faisal Javed Khan, Mirza Mohammad Afridi, Irfan Saleem and Khurram Zeeshan are candidates for the general seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is set to hold the Senate election next month to fill the 48 seats that fell vacant upon the expiration of the 6-year term of the incumbent senators last week.

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SC files review petition for restoration of the bat symbol

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf(PTI)  has challenged the Supreme Court’s decision to withdraw their bat election symbol in a review petition filed on Tuesday.

PTI has filed a review appeal to reclaim the electoral symbol of the bat. The petition was filed by senior lawyers Hamid Khan and Ali Zafar on behalf of PTI.

He requested the Supreme Court to restore the election symbol of the bat and asked the Supreme Court to withdraw its January 13 decision.

In the petition, it has been said that the decision of the Election Commission of Pakistan to withdraw the election symbol should be annulled and the decision of the Peshawar High Court to return the bat election symbol should be restored.

It has been stated in the petition that the Supreme Court has not properly evaluated the facts related to the intra-party elections, withdrawing election symbols from any political party is a violation of the fundamental rights of the voters, the right to form a political party and participate in the elections is enshrined in the Constitution of Pakistan.

The PTI petition said that the ECP exceeded its powers by withdrawing the election symbol, the job of the Election Commission is to provide a level playing field to the PTI.

In the petition, it was said that the ECP is taking action against the officials by going to jail instead of taking action against them, the issue of withdrawing the bat symbol should be seen in the whole context.

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SC to hear PTI’s plea for bat as election symbol on Jan 10

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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has fixed the  Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) petition filed for the restoration of the bat symbol for hearing on January 10.

During the hearing of the petition related to the PTI level playing field in the Supreme Court, PTI leader Hamid Khan was summoned by the court on which he came to the rostrum.

The Chief Justice asked Hamid Khan whether the PTI plea should be fixed tomorrow. On this, Hamid Khan requested that the hearing be fixed today.

Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa said that today there is a 9-member bench and there is also a special bench, Hamid Khan said that our priority is today, if not, then tomorrow.

The Chief Justice “asked whether you came against the decision or is there a request for 184/3, Hamid Khan said that he has come to the Supreme Court in 185/3 against the order of the Peshawar High Court”.

The Chief Justice said that if the matter did not go to the Judges Committee then the case was fixed the day after tomorrow.

Later, the court fixed the bat symbol case for hearing on January 10.

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