Election Commission of Pakistan rings alarm bells for PTI

Election Commission of Pakistan rings alarm bells for PTI

ISLAMABAD:

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will hear the PakistanTehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) foreign funding case every day, so as to decide itwithin 30 days as per the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) directives.

The ECP’s spokesperson said in a statement that in line with the IHC’sdecision, the commission has decided to hear the foreign funding case on adaily basis.

On April 14, a single-judge bench headed by Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayaniissued a judgment upholding the ECP’s decision to give access of the case’srecord to the PTI’s founding member Akbar S Babar and not remove him fromthe proceedings.

The PTI had filed petitions on January 25 and 31 on the aforementioned tworequests that were rejected by the ECP on March 15.