PTI submits accounts’ details to ECP in foreign funding case
PTI asked the ECP to give a receipt to the party, but the request was flatly denied by the ECP
September 18, 2017
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) submitted on Monday documents to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in relation to the foreign funding case.
The case was being heard by a five-member ECP bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Sardar Raza Khan.
The details of the party's funding were submitted by PTI counsel Saqlain Haider. Following the submission, Haider asked the ECP to give a receipt to the party as confirmation of the submission of documents.
The ECP chief refused to provide any such receipt, saying that the PTI was bound to submit documents.
Meanwhile, PTI;s other counsel, Faisal Chaudhry, apologised to Justice (retd) Raza.
However, he requested the ECP to keep the documents to itself and not share it with anyone, including the petitioner.
The hearing was then adjourned until October 16.
The ECP had given the PTI until September 18 to submit details of its funding, warning the party that it would take as fact the petitions submitted against it in case the PTI fails to submit funding details.
On Sept 11, the ECP had reserved its decision in the foreign funding case against the PTI. Hearing PTI founding member Akbar Babar’s petition on September 7, the ECP had given PTI the ‘last chance’ to submit its funding details.
In 2014, Babar filed a petition in the ECP seeking the disqualification of PTI Chairman Imran Khan for allegedly obtaining funding from illegal sources and discrepancies in the party’s accounts.
He also claimed that funds worth $3 million were collected by the PTI chief, transferred from illegal channels from the Middle East to bank accounts of PTI members.
Speaking to the media outside the ECP on Monday, Babar said the documents submitted today by the PTI are fake and incomplete.
