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In a shocking role reversal Chief Justice Faez Isa acted like his most controversial peer former Chief justice Saqib Nisar who was accused of judicial engineering of 2018 elections. Heading a three judges bench he on Saturday upheld an election commission decision of refusing to allot PTI’s election symbol -cricket bat. Many political observers see the decision as part of the pre-poll engineering targeting Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan.
Soon after the court order #MJtv talks to senior court reporter Hasnat Malik, PTI lawyer Hamid Khan, PTI party election chief Niazullah Niazi and the rebellious PTI leader Akbar S Babar who had challenged the allocation of symbol to his own political party, the PTI alleging illegal party elections.
