Pakistan's Imran 旅宿泊所's party loses cricket bat 選挙（人）の symbol
By Asif Shahzad
ISLAMABAD, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Pakistan's 最高裁判所 on Saturday 拒絶するd an 試みる／企てる by former 首相 Imran 旅宿泊所's party to 保持する its 伝統的な 選挙（人）の symbol of a cricket bat, in the 最新の 後退 for the 刑務所，拘置所d leader ahead of a 総選挙.
旅宿泊所's party, at 半端物s with powerful army generals, has been grappling with a 軍の-支援するd 厳重取締 that has gathered pace ahead of the Feb. 8 投票（する）. The party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), 主張するs the 軍の is 試みる／企てるing to keep it out of the 選挙 race, a 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 the army 否定するs.
A party's 選挙（人）の symbol on 投票（する） papers is 重要な for 投票者s to be able to identify its 候補者s in the South Asian nation of 241 million people, where the 大多数 of the 選挙区／有権者s are in 田舎の areas with low literacy.
長，指導者 司法（官） Qazi Faez Isa 発表するd the 判決，裁定 in a live late night テレビ放送 of the 訴訟／進行s on the 最高の，を越す 法廷，裁判所's website.
Stripped of the bat, PTI 候補者s will need to contest on individual symbols, which could 混乱させる its 投票者s.
"This, by far, is the worst 決定／判定勝ち（する） 衝撃ing million of 投票者s," the party said in a 声明, with its chairman Barrister Gohar 旅宿泊所 発表するing that its 候補者s will contest the 選挙 as 独立した・無所属s.
The 選挙 （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 of Pakistan (ECP) had stripped the PTI of the symbol on the technical grounds that it had not held intra-party 選挙s, a 必要条件 for any 政党 to 参加する the 国家の 選挙.
The party had challenged that 判決，裁定 in the 最高の，を越す 法廷，裁判所.
The 選挙運動, 延期するd since November, has been a lacklustre race in an uncertain political 環境 with K han, 71, 刑務所，拘置所d and disqualified from contesting.
His main 競争相手 and former three time 首相 Nawaz Sharif has been （疑いを）晴らすd of all 法廷，裁判所 事例／患者s and a lifetime 禁止（する） to contest the 投票s. 分析家s say he appears to be the 前線 走者, thanks to what they say is 軍の support, an advantage in a country where army generals mostly decide on the making or breaking of 政府s. The army says it is apolitical. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Asif Shahzad, Editing by William Maclean)
