PTI challenges ECP order regarding foreign funding details in IHC

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has challenged the orders of Election Commission of Pakistan in the party’s foreign funding case in Islamabad High Court (IHC).

The ECP on May 13 had told the PTI for the last time to submit its bank account details.However, on Tuesday PTI lawyer Saqlain Haider told Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza that they had challenged the ECP’s order in IHC, asking for the hearing to be adjourned.

However, the chief election commissioner asked the lawyer if they have taken a stay order on the case, to which Haider replied that hearing in the court would commence on Wednesday (tomorrow).

Thereafter, the chief election commissioner stated that the party would be required to submit its details in the ECP adding that the hearing would not be delayed further unless a stay order from the IHC is sought.

The party has until tomorrow to submit its bank account details in the ECP.