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Pakistan court restores ex-PM Imran Khan’s cricket bat election symbol

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf won relief on Wednesday when a court allowed the party to use its electoral symbol, the cricket bat, in upcoming polls [ EPA]

Islamabad, Pakistan: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) political party received a boost weeks before general elections when a court reinstated – for the second time – their electoral symbol, the cricket bat.

A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) in the country’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa held that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)’s decision to strip the party off its symbol last month was “illegal”. Khan is Pakistan’s most celebrated cricketer ever and had led them to their only World Cup win in 1992.

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