The highest court provided significant comfort to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday by allowing five of its candidates—including the party’s imprisoned president, Parvez Elahi—to run in the upcoming elections on February 8. In addition to Elahi, PTI candidates Umer Aslam, Major (retd) Tahir Sadiq, Sanam Javaid Khan, and Shukat Basra had their appeals against returning officers’ rulings to reject their nomination papers from various constituencies accepted by the Supreme Court on Friday. Elahi has been granted permission to run in the general election from Gujarat district’s PP-32 seat. In an attempt to appeal the outcome of the Lahore High Court (LHC), which upheld the Election Tribunal’s decision to reject the former chief minister of Punjab, the former chief minister had petitioned the Supreme Court to run in the 2018 general elections.