Supreme Court has reserved the verdict in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) foreign funding case. The verdict is expected to be announced sometime today (Wednesday).
PTI lawyer Anwar Masood earlier requested that the party’s foreign funding case in the Election Commission of Pakistan should be discontinued as a similar case has also been registered in the Supreme Court, which is an authority higher than the ECP.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retired) Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan is heading the five-member bench which is hearing the petition filed by former PTI member Akbar S. Babar.
The bench directed that the party should file a petition regarding the discontinuation of ECP case in the Supreme Court.
A petition was filed by former PTI member Akbar S. Babar seeking disqualification of PTI Chairman Imran Khan for allegedly getting funds from illegal foreign sources and glaring contradictions in party’s financial records.
He also said that $3 million worth of funds were obtained by the PTI chief Imran Khan, allegedly transferred from illegal Middle East sources to PTI members’ bank accounts.
The party has submitted its records to the Supreme Court, while remaining unable to produce these records in front of the ECP for the last two years, despite several requests.
Two separate cases related to PTI’s ‘foreign funding’ are underway in the ECP, while a petition filed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Hanif Abbasi, is underway in the Supreme Court.
Abbasi argues in the petition that Imran Khan has not declared his assets and should be disqualified from holding office on this pretext.
