Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said Saturday that his party was dissatisfied with the Supreme Court (SC) ruling against the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) order on hiring election officers for the conduct of elections on February 8, 2024. Talking to media persons in Islamabad after meeting the incarcerated ex-PTI chief, Imran Khan, Barrister Gohar reiterated his party stance that the returning officers (ROs) and district returning officers (DROs) should be from the judiciary. However, he said it was the party’s demand that the elections should not be delayed by even a day. The PTI chief said not only should elections be held, but they should be free and fair. The advocate added that PTI was trying to stop democracy from “derailing”. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on December 14 stopped the training of the returning officers (RO) and district returning officers (DRO) for the upcoming elections, after the high court suspended the electoral body’s notification for the officers’ appointment from bureaucracy. The LHC ruling, which was issued PTI’s petition challenging the bureaucrats’ appointments of bureaucrats, turned out to be a hiccup in the polling process as it jeopardised the polls’ conduct on the designated date. The newly appointed chief of PTI – which had sought the appointment of ROs and DROs from the judiciary for the poll exercise in its petition – said it was the right of every party to present its reservations before the court. “The way of justice will be obstructed if you start sending notices to the petitioners,” Gohar said while referring to SC’s contempt of court notice to PTI’s Umair Niazi, who was the appellant in the LHC.