The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has filed a review petition in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) in response to the suspension of its decision not to allow the PTI to retain the “bat” as its electoral symbol. The high court had previously suspended the ECP’s declaration of the PTI’s intra-party polls as unconstitutional and revoked the party’s iconic symbol. The ECP argued that the high court’s verdict was against the law and the constitution, and that the court’s powers were limited to its territorial jurisdiction. The ECP urged the high court to constitute a special bench to hear its review petition at the earliest, as the matter pertains to national interest. The decision to restore the PTI’s election symbol was also disagreed with by the PML-N, who accused the court of undermining the ECP’s authority and questioned the impartiality of the high court’s judge. PTI’s counsel advocate Moazzam Butt stated that the ECP’s decision was deficient and that it did not want to conduct free and fair elections.