{"id":13810,"date":"2023-02-02T11:49:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T11:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=13810"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:49:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T11:49:59","slug":"ptis-petition-against-ecp-notice-in-prohibited-funding-case-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ptis-petition-against-ecp-notice-in-prohibited-funding-case-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI\u2019s petition against ECP notice in prohibited funding case rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"

PTI\u2019s petition against ECP notice in prohibited funding case rejected. The Islamabad High Court\u2019s (IHC) on Thursday dismissed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf\u2019s (PTI) petition against the ruling of the Election Commission of Pakistan<\/a> (ECP) regarding the prohibited funding case.<\/p>\n

In August 2022, the election commission issued a show-cause notice to the PTI after it concluded that the party received funding from prohibited sources. The notice was later challenged in the IHC.<\/p>\n

A larger bench of the IHC \u2014 comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq, Justice Miangul Hassan and Justice Babar Sattar \u2014 had reserved its verdict on January 11 after arguments were completed.<\/p>\n

The verdict was announced verbally.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0IHC reserves verdict in PTI’s prohibited funding case<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

During the hearing, the court had observed that the ECP\u2019s responsibility was merely to do what the Constitution permitted \u2014 which was limited to the confiscation of funds.<\/p>\n

While the ECP during the hearing claimed that it had no power to change its decision, the court had observed that should the PTI present in the court satisfactory evidence \u2014 proving the legitimacy of the funds \u2014 the amount would not be confiscated.<\/p>\n

The PTI counsel had argued during that hearing that the ECP had declared it a \u201cforeign-aided\u201d party and had rejected the declaration of PTI chief Imran Khan false.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolitical parties\u2019 finances are looked after by a chartered accountant,\u201d he argued. \u201cThe ECP has targeted PTI.\u201d<\/p>\n

The chief justice had said that the ECP had not made any declaration in its report, \u201cthe decision of the ECP is sometimes called an order, sometimes a report and sometimes just an opinion. In my opinion, this was a fact-finding report,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, the ECP\u2019s representative insisted that it was not just a report but a decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ECP could not have issued a show-cause notice without giving a decision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

During a hearing of the case, IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq said: “Are you afraid that Imran Khan will be disqualified on this issue? The ECP will not make any declaration in this show-cause notice, nor will take criminal action against Khan. Its authority extends only to the extent of confiscation of funds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, the court in the previous hearing had also criticised the ECP for taking the matter to the federal government, as doing so had led to a number of cases being registered against PTI by the FIA.<\/p>\n

Now, if the court rules in favour of PTI, the notice will be retracted and the cases against the party will be withdrawn. It is also likely that the court will advise the electoral body to reassess the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PTI\u2019s petition against ECP notice in prohibited funding case rejected. The Islamabad High Court\u2019s (IHC) on Thursday dismissed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf\u2019s (PTI) petition against the ruling of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) regarding the prohibited funding case. In August 2022, the election commission issued a show-cause notice to the PTI after it concluded that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[491,1203,148,317,194],"class_list":["post-13810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-election-commission-of-pakistan","tag-islamabad-high-court","tag-ecp","tag-ihc","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}