PTI’s Barrister Ali Zafar announced on Wednesday that Chairman Imran Khan would not be contesting intra-party polls scheduled for December 2 (Saturday) and Barrister Gohar Khan had been nominated for the slot of party chairman.
His statement comes a day after the party found itself embroiled in fresh controversy after denying a statement by one of its own senior leaders, who had claimed that Imran Khan would not contest the upcoming intra-party polls for the slot of party chairman and that he had picked someone to contest in his stead.
Speaking to the media outside the Election Commission of Pakistan in Islamabad, Zafar said that the PTI chief had been convicted in the Toshakhana case.
Maintaining that a person could not be disqualified for failing to declare Toshakhana gifts, Zafar said that the the party then had to see if the ECP would take any “illegal or unconstitutional” step that would prevent the party from getting the bat as its poll symbol or cancel the nominations of its candidates.
