The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) expressed anger over the lack of response of Imran Khan in the contempt of commission case.
The Election Commission asked the lawyer of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to inform Khan to withdraw his statement, tendering his unconditional apology until May 8 to submit his response to the commission.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan, along with other four members of the commission, heard the case.
During the proceeding, the commission sought written arguments from the lawyer of Akbar S Babar, the petitioner in the case.
The ECP five-member bench once again sought a reply from Imran Khan as well as the detail of PTI’s bank accounts regarding the money transferred from abroad, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) since July 2010.
During its previous hearing of the case, on April 4, the ECP had stated that if Imran Khan’s response wasn’t submitted until the next hearing (today), then the commission would write that the PTI chief had nothing to say.
An expelled party leader, Akbar S Babar, had filed the contempt of the ECP petition against the PTI chief, who had been the former founding member of PTI; later, differences between him and Imran Khan were developed over alleged internal corruption and violations of laws in maintaining party’s accounts.
The applicant’s lawyer had stated in his arguments that his client was expelled from the party in 2014. The lawyer had also mentioned the irregularities on a big scale in the PTI’s bank accounts found through a forensic audit.