ECP reserves verdict in PTI foreign funding case

Imran Khan’s party pledges to submit details in two weeks

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday reserved its judgment in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) foreign funding case.

A five-member bench, headed by Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza, said that time was being wasted for four years in the party’s foreign funding case and “now the ECP will give its verdict”.



He said that during the last hearing, the commission had given the PTI one last chance to submit details of the its foreign funding on the next hearing of the case.

PTI counsel Saqlain Haider told the bench that the foreign funding details would be submitted to the commission in two weeks.

Later, talking to the media outside the ECP, petitioner Akbar S Babar said: “Interestingly, the PTI has asked [the bench] to avoid sharing details of foreign funding documents with me because they are fully aware of my full knowledge about the actual documents.”



He alleged that the PTI did not submit actual details of the foreign funding and the papers submitted with the court were ‘fake, incomplete and bogus’.

He said the PTI's representatives abroad, responsible for collecting funds for the party like Zulfiqar Khan, had transferred funds to Imran Khan through illegal means in Pakistan.

Babar expressed the hope that the commission would take strict action on the PTI not submitting the foreign funding details. He also hoped that the reference would come to its logical end within a few weeks, and there would be a historical decision. APP