ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday accepted Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) petition against Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) verdict in the prohibited funding case and issued a pre-admission notice to ECP.
The notice urged the ECP to decide on the admissibility of the petition filed by PTI against the prohibited funding case ruling.
A five-member bench of IHC further adjourned the hearing till August 24 and the ECP is due to present its arguments on that date.
On August 16, IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq formed a larger bench to hear PTI’s petition against ECP and adjourned the hearing till Thursday.
While representing PTI on Tuesday’s hearing, Barrister Anwar Mansoor and Faisal Chaudhry told CJ Farooq that PTI challenged ECP’s fact finding report because disclosure of party’s accounts was not necessary due to certain reasons.
“The money went to accounts of provincial governments hence there was no need for a money trail,” he said. Mansoor held the view that show-cause notice should not be issued to PTI.
On August 2, a three-member bench of ECP announced that PTI received prohibited funding and kept 13 bank accounts hidden.
