Foreign funding case ECP rejects PTI request new date

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday rejected the latest request of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for yet another adjournment of its foreign funding case, and asked its junior lawyer if he was sure that the senior lawyer had gone abroad.

The ECP rejected the application for adjournment for health reasons of the senior lawyer. The PTI had filed request for another adjournment on the plea that its ninth lawyer. Anwar Mansoor Khan, was ill and he could not attend the proceedings of the case.

To this, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja asked the party’s junior lawyer. Anwar Mansoor Khan had gone abroad, as he had pleaded on March 1. While seeking an extended adjournment. The juniorThe petitioner’s lawyer Syed Ahmad Hassan Shah, however, proceeded with his arguments on the latest PTI applications. Demanding exclusion of the petitioner Akbar S. Babar from the case and seeking secrecy of the documents requisitioned through the State Bank of Pakistan, which have already been handed over to the petitioner.

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Shah stated that the latest application was another attempt to delay the case proceedings. He said the PTI should be fine for delaying the case. He read out parts of the ECP order dated October 10, 2019. Which labelled the PTI attempts to delay the case as “historic abuse of law”.