Deprivation of Tehreek-e-Insaf from the bat. Cruelty or justice?

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According to the decision of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the first notice was issued by the Election Commission on May 24, 2021 (when the PTI was a ladle of the establishment and was returning the joys of governance) to hold intra-party elections to PTI. But instead of conducting intra-party elections, PTI sought a one-year respite, which was granted by the Election Commission, using Corona as an excuse.


When the PTI did not hold the election even after a year, the same year the Election Commission issued a show cause notice to it and warned it of the implications of not holding an intra-party election (deprivation of election symbol etc.) citing the Election Act 2017. Concession sought by another party and not granted) and stipulated that intra-party elections should not be delayed beyond 13 June 2022 and also said that no further extension would be granted. Therefore, according to PTI, the (so-called) elections were held on June 8, 2022, but the Election Commission did not recognize it as an election. On September 13, 2023, the Election Commission declared the fraud election of PTI in 2022 (those who believe that intra-party elections were really held by PTI in 2022, then they should tell today who was elected as the president of Pakhtunkhwa province in these elections? ) as a fraud and ordered him to hold intra-party elections.


It should be noted that under the Election Act 2017, the Election Commission could have deprived the PTI of the election symbol at the same time because the other 13 parties which were not allotted the election symbol were not given a single respite but gave another chance to the PTI. went. The Election Commission also clarified that the intra-party elections should be in accordance with the PTI constitution and all the requirements mentioned in the constitution should be fulfilled otherwise it will not be allotted election symbol (As if PTI had been warned in advance about the consequences of not conducting elections in the true sense, therefore PTI leaders and lawyers should have conducted proper elections instead of creating electoral drama) But instead of following the instructions of the Election Commission, PTI went to the Lahore High Court against its show-cause notice. The single bench heard it there, then PTI demanded that a full bench be formed for it, so a five-member bench was formed.


Now the writ was not withdrawn from the Lahore High Court and the matter was under hearing there that suddenly on 2nd December 2023 PTI announced that their intra-party elections were held in which such and such officials were elected (If PTI had intended to hold elections as per the EC order, then it should have first withdrawn its case from the Lahore High Court because there it had challenged the EC orders but fearing that the party would Even the case that the workers did not know about the elections was not withdrawn and the results of the alleged elections were announced secretly on December 2.


(The process was kept secret that on that day only one English newspaper reported that PTI elections might be held today.) Therefore, neither Islamabad, nor Lahore, nor Karachi, nor Quetta, but Peshawar was chosen for the drama of the elections, and that too, not Peshawar, but a village outside of it. On the other hand, Akbar S. Babar, who is a member of PTI till now, due to the decision of the High Court, Along with a dozen more activists, they were looking for nomination papers to contest the elections in front of the media cameras that day, but they were not given nomination papers, so all these people also went to the court with a plea that they were not allowed to participate in the so-called elections. Meanwhile, a single bench of Peshawar High Court gave a decision, then another and then another bench gave an unjustified decision in favor of PTI, against which the Election Commission approached the Supreme Court. A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Faiz Isa held a hearing in front of the entire nation for two days.


During this hearing, the lawyers of PTI could not present any evidence in favor of any of their positions, so they put a stone on the heart of Justice Faiz Isa and his fellow judges (I am using the words of keeping a stone on the heart because Justice Faiz Isa always He kept giving decisions in favor of human rights and democracy. A few days ago, by bringing out an old case, he sentenced General Pervez Musharraf posthumously, while Justice Musrat Hilali, who was active for human rights even before becoming a judge, had to write in his decision that: "Election Commission of Pakistan." From May 24, 2021, while the PTI was in power at the Center and in the provinces, it kept insisting that it conduct intra-party elections. Therefore, it cannot be said that the Election Commission was abusing the PTI. We did not find any evidence that the Election Commission is acting maliciously or biased against the PTI.


The Election Commission gave strict orders to them regarding other 13 parties. A similar case came before the Election Commission of All Pakistan Muslim League on January 12, 2024 and the Commission maintained its decision to remove it from the list of political parties. The Election Commission wanted the PTI to conduct intra-party elections, but the PTI just presented the certificate, and we did not have any evidence to prove that any act similar to the election was done.


On the other hand, fourteen members of PTI came forward with evidence which proved that the intra-party elections were not held. Likewise, no evidence was presented about the expulsion of these members from the party. The notice said that the elections would be held in Peshawar, but instead of Peshawar, the so-called election process was conducted in Chamkani. If the position of Peshawar High Court is accepted as correct that the Election Commission had no authority to take cognizance of intra-party elections, then the entire provisions of the Election Act related to intra-party elections will become ineffective. Therefore, while allowing the appeal of the Election Commission, its order dated 22nd December 2023 is upheld. "The fact is that Justice Faiz Isa and his fellow judges spent two days asking the lawyers to find any material to save PTI, but unfortunately, despite their efforts, they did not find any solid argument in favor of PTI. Due to which he had to do this justice with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf.