Shehbaz terms PHC’s verdict attack on ECP’s authority

Shehbaz Sharif, the President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and former prime minister, has likened the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) decision to suspend the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) ruling on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) iconic bat symbol to an “attack” on the commission’s authority.

On Tuesday, the PHC had suspended the ECP decision to nullify the…