PTI faces risk of losing ‘bat’ symbol

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) could lose its bat electoral symbol in the next general election after it failed to hold intra-party elections.

The Election Commission (ECP) has sought a reply from the PTI chief on August 4 for not holding intra-party elections.

According to a communique issued by the ECP, “if the intra-party elections are not conducted, the PTI may become ineligible to use the electoral symbol.”

According to Geo News, as per the notice sent to the PTI chairman, the intra-party elections were supposed to be held on June 13, 2021.

The electoral watchdog has said that it has issued multiple reminders to the PTI chairman but did not get any response and no further extension will be granted, now.

Read more: 126,066,874 Pakistanis will cast vote in the upcoming general elections

Last month, the ECP issued data of the registered voters ahead of the next general election.

As per the data, the number of voters has reached 126,066,874 including 68,099,615 male and 57,967,259 female voters, comprising of 54.02 per cent and 45.98 per cent of the total votes respectively.

The number of voters in Islamabad stands at 1,035,387, 71,606,378 in Punjab, 26,529,136 in Sindh  21,621,211 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 5,274,761 voters in Balochistan.

The number of voters between age 18 and 35 stands at 56,196,479 while those between 36 and 55 stands at 45,886,944.

Meanwhile, the number of voters aged 66 and above stands at 12,090,816