ISLAMABAD: Former Secretary of the ECP, has said that the election watchdog has powers to ban PM Imran Khan’s party if the accusations leveled by Akbar S Babar are proven true.
“If accusations leveled by Akbar S Babar are proven true then the ECP has powers under section 212 to ban the party(Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf),” Kanwar Dilshad stated on a private news channel.
Babar, a disgruntled founding member of the PTI, filed a petition in the ECP accusing the party of corruption and receiving illegal funding from abroad on November 14, 2014.
Recently, the ECP had accepted the opposition parties’ petition in the case and said it would be holding hearings every day.
Dilshad believes that the PTI will lose its government and Imran Khan will lose the premiership if the accusations against the party are proven true.
“If a party gets banned, it will be deprived of provincial and national assembly seats,” the former ECP official said, adding that PM Khan will also lose his seat if it happens.
The PTI, however, believes that the party can not be banned even if the decision in the foreign funding case comes against the party.
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