Live
- Nagarkurnool: Burglary in a locked house
- Nadda asks voters to unseat BJD govt
- KCR Rally at Hanumakonda Chowrastha Road Show for Warangal Parliamentary Elections
- Yastika, Renuka Thakur star in India’s 44-run win over Bangladesh in T20I series opener
- Sai Sangeeta won gold medal for India in Dubai Asian Championship
- BSP's Akash Anand booked for hate speech against BJP
- Two die of sunstroke in Kerala, heat alert sounded in parts of state
- IPL 2024: Will Jacks, Kohli shock Gujarat, keep RCB's playoff hopes alive
- IPL 2024: 'Can't sit and speak from a box', Virat Kohli slams strike-rate critics
- ISL 2023-24: We have to give our everything, says FC Goa's Fernandes ahead of semis clash with Mumbai City
Imran Khan’s party elects Gohar Ali Khan as its chairman
This was the third time PTI conducted its intra-party elections in the past two years.
Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party on Sunday announced that Barrister Gohar Ali Khan was elected as its chairman following fresh intra-party polls.
The party was forced to hold the election to elect key office holders after its elections of last year were not accepted as legal by the Election Commission of Pakistan which also deprived it of the iconic symbol of cricket bat.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, PTI's spokesperson and Chief Election Commissioner Raoof Hasan announced that Gohar was elected unopposed as the chairman.
Gohar won the chairman's position unopposed since there were no other candidates because his two challengers withdrew from the race while the candidacy of another was rejected.
"Because of this, there were no candidates against Gohar, so we declared him the uncontested winner. He has been elected party chairman unopposed," Hasan said.
Meanwhile, Omar Ayub Khan was elected PTI's secretary general unopposed, since there were no other nominations for the position.
Gohar was handpicked by Imran Khan and he was also elected the PTI chairman in the intra-party elections held in December last year. This was the third time PTI conducted its intra-party elections in the past two years. It had also held elections in June 2022, which the ECP had annulled on November 23 last year by terming them "highly objectionable".
