<p>Islamabad: Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party on Saturday elected Barrister Gohar Ali Khan as the new chairman, barely days before the top election body’s deadline to hold intra-party polls to retain 'bat' as its election symbol.</p>.<p> Gohar, 45, a lawyer, nominated by Khan for the top slot, won the chairman’s position unopposed, the <em>Dawn newspaper</em> reported.</p>.<p> Khan, the 71-year-old cricketer-turned-politician, incarcerated since September in multiple cases and convicted in the Toshakhana corruption case, would not have been able to contest the organisational polls.</p>.Pakistan apex anti-graft body files corruption case against Imran Khan, his wife.<p> Gohar Khan, a member of the <em>PTI</em> chairman's legal team, had announced on November 29 when he was nominated for the post, “Imran Khan was, is and will continue to be the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf... I will carry out my responsibility till Khan returns.” </p><p>The intra-party elections were necessitated on the directives of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) that had given a 20-day time frame to the PTI to retain the ‘bat’ as its electoral symbol, ahead of general elections scheduled to be held on February 8. </p>
<p>Islamabad: Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party on Saturday elected Barrister Gohar Ali Khan as the new chairman, barely days before the top election body’s deadline to hold intra-party polls to retain 'bat' as its election symbol.</p>.<p> Gohar, 45, a lawyer, nominated by Khan for the top slot, won the chairman’s position unopposed, the <em>Dawn newspaper</em> reported.</p>.<p> Khan, the 71-year-old cricketer-turned-politician, incarcerated since September in multiple cases and convicted in the Toshakhana corruption case, would not have been able to contest the organisational polls.</p>.Pakistan apex anti-graft body files corruption case against Imran Khan, his wife.<p> Gohar Khan, a member of the <em>PTI</em> chairman's legal team, had announced on November 29 when he was nominated for the post, “Imran Khan was, is and will continue to be the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf... I will carry out my responsibility till Khan returns.” </p><p>The intra-party elections were necessitated on the directives of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) that had given a 20-day time frame to the PTI to retain the ‘bat’ as its electoral symbol, ahead of general elections scheduled to be held on February 8. </p>