PTI challenges ECP order on funding details in Islamabad High Court
PTI lawyer asked chief election commissioner to adjourn hearing but the latter refused
May 30, 2017
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has challenged the orders of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — regarding party's foreign funding case — in the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
The ECP had given the 'last chance' to the party on May 13 to submit its bank account details. But on Tuesday, PTI's counsel Saqlain Haider told Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza that they have challenged the ECP's order in the 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 the IHC hearing on the case would commence on Wednesday (tomorrow).
Therefore, the chief election commissioner said the party will have to submit its details in the ECP and that the ECP hearing would not be delayed further unless they take a stay order from the IHC.
The party has been given time till tomorrow to submit its bank account details with the ECP.
