ECP allots eagle as election symbol to Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has allotted election symbol of ‘Eagle’ to newly-floated Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP), reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

Giving its nod to the IPP request, the ECP on Thursday pronounced its reserved verdict allotting Eagle symbol to the party.

On Monday last, the ECP had reserved its decision on the allocation of the electoral symbol ‘eagle’ to the IPP. A three-member ECP bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja heard the legal representative of the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party.

The IPP counsel had appealed to the Commission to allot the party the election symbol of ‘eagle’. Upon this, the CEC asked him to provide alternative preferences.

Earlier, the IPP central executive committee meeting had decided to reapply for ‘eagle’ as their party’s election symbol. The newly-formed political party’s plea for the eagle symbol was rejected by a four-member bench of the ECP, headed by Sindh Member Nisar Ahmad Durrani.

Reporter Usman Khan