ISLAMABAD – New development reported over the PTI foriegn funding case inIslamabad High Court.The Islamabad High Court on Monday has acceptedmiscellaneous plea filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to submit moredocuments in a case pertaining to foreign funding.
According to details, Justice Mohsin Akhtar conducted hearing of PTIforeign funding case in Islamabad High Court wherein the court acceptedPTI’s plea to submit more documents.
The court directed to make the details of pending PTI foreign funding casein Election Commission a part of the judicial record as well as anotification of Saqlain Haider Awan’s appointment as law officer directedto be part of judicial record.
In addition, PTI has also been granted permission to submit the details ofthe petition filed in the same court in 2017.
In November 2014, the foreign funding case was first filed by the PTI’sformer central vice president Akbar S Babar, who had alleged corruption andother illegalities in the party’s funding.
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Since start of the case, the PTI has repeatedly challenged the ECP’sjurisdiction to scrutinise the PTI accounts and challenged the PTImembership of the petitioner Akbar S Babar.
The ECP and subsequently the Islamabad High Court (IHC) passed more thanone judgments validating the ECP jurisdiction and the PTI membership of thepetitioner.
The last PTI writ petition in the IHC challenging formation of the ECPscrutiny committee to audit PTI foreign funding and the PTI membership ofBabar was dismissed by a single IHC bench on July 24.
