"The election commission removed Tehreek-e-Insaaf from the current list of political parties," says a July 10, 2023 post on Twitter, which is being rebranded as "X".
"The election commission is in such a hurry that it removed PTI from the list of parties contesting the next election even before PTI was banned," adds the post, which was shared over 9,700 times.
Screenshot of the false post taken August 15, 2023
Pakistan has been in political turmoil since Khan was booted from power in April 2022, culminating in his jail sentence handed down in August for graft following a months-long crackdown on his party.
The former international cricket star has been disqualified from elections for five years but is appealing his sentence and conviction (archived link).
The party also said Khan's recent disqualification in a statement on August 8 was a "discriminatory decision" (archived link).
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