Imran Khan

On December 22, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) rejected PTI's intra-party elections and deprived the party of its cricket bat symbol. Barrister Gohar Khan was elected as the party's new chairman in the internal elections in December.

Election officials disallowed Khan’s candidacy because of his conviction and what they said was his disqualification under the constitution, according to documents.

A five-member panel of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on December 22 rejected the organisational elections of Khan's party and its plea to have a cricket bat as the electoral symbol for the general elections.

The apex court also directed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders to submit surety bonds worth Rs 1 million each, the Dawn newspaper reported.

This week, Khan for the first time used artificial intelligence to deliver a speech to supporters. The surprise development could help his party to win the upcoming elections in February, according to analysts.

Imran Khan's AI generated speech garnered millions of views on social media platforms, his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf said.

In the audio, the voice replicating Khan’s was heard praising his supporters and his social media followers.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced the election schedule late on December 15 night after the Supreme Court suspended an order by the Lahore High Court (LHC) on the appointment of bureaucrats as Returning Officers (ROs).

The Federal Investigation Agency registered the cipher case on August 15 on the charges of violating the secret laws of the country.

The ECP has fixed indictment of Khan on December 13 at the Adiala jail.

Imran’s decision to appoint Gohar Ali Khan as chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf has surprised everyone. Gohar’s election is widely seen as a stop-gap arrangement and he is expected to hand over the chairmanship to Imran, once the latter is out of jail.

According to the charges, Khan and Bibi obtained billions of rupees and land worth dozens of acres from Bahria Town Ltd of Malik Riaz Hussain for legalising Rs50 billion that was returned to the country by the UK.

Khan has been in charge of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI, since he founded it in 1996.

PTI elects Barrister Gohar Ali Khan as chairman ahead of deadline, securing the 'bat' as its election symbol. Imran Khan remains jailed.

The 71-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party chief has been incarcerated in the high-security jail in Rawalpindi since September 26 in various cases.

Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party sought directives for respondents to give a level playing field to all political parties for upcoming general elections and hold free and fair polls under judicial oversight through the appointment of judicial officers as district returning officers.

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) upheld the indictment when challenged by the cricketer-turned-politician.

Khan, who served as prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to April 2022, is accused of misusing the contents of the cipher to build a narrative that his government was ousted due to a conspiracy hatched by the US, a charge denied by Washington.

Khan and several of his party leaders have been facing numerous cases since the ouster of the party from power in April 2022 and later in the wake of the May 9 violence.

Khan, 71, and his close ally ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, 67, were on Monday indicted by the special court on charges of leaking state secrets, in another blow to the jailed leaders who could now face a possible death sentence.